Data Science Group Project 1 - 2019 entry

This module introduces you to the practicalities of a real data science project. In a team, you will help define and specify a data science problem, understand the client’s requirements and the available data sources. Your team, guided by a supervisor, will then use methods from other modules and new techniques to solve the problem and report your findings.  An important part of the project will be aspects of “data wrangling” – understanding the data and getting it into a form suitable for machine learning algorithms.

This module aims to give you experience of working on a practical data science project in the round, understanding the problem, selecting data and methods to solve it, wrangling the data and reporting your results.  It also aims to develop your soft skills in the areas of problem definition and presentation skills.

On successful completion of this module, you should be able to:

Module Specific Skills and Knowledge:

1 Capture requirements from an external “customer”;

2 Understand data, particularly text, representations and encodings;

3 "Wrangle” data into a form suitable for machine learning algorithms;

4 Select and apply suitable machine learning algorithms;

Discipline Specific Skills and Knowledge:

5 Choose and use an appropriate research and development process;

6 Read and understand new technical methods;

7 Work as a member of a research and development team, participating in self-evaluation and peer review;

Personal and Key Transferable / Employment Skills and Knowledge:

8 Understand and apply legal, social and ethical principles;

9 Present your work to specialist and non-specialist audiences;

10 Tackle a technical problem in a new area.

- Students will work in teams, meeting their supervisor weekly;

- The initial weeks will include lectures on the following topics, as appropriate:

• Introduction to the project;

• Data wrangling;

• Technical material related to the project;

• Presentation skills;

• Writing effective reports.

Assessment of the final report will include an element of peer assessment, negotiated at the start of the project.

Referred and deferred assessments will normally be by a single assignment together with a demonstration/viva.

Basic Reading:

ELE: http://vle.exeter.ac.uk/

There is no standard reading list for this module.

Reading list for this module: