Analytics

1.Project Proposaland presentation

The project proposal is intended to introduce the company and its situation, problem or challenge.It should include all relevant information for that introduction.The proposal should try to answer the following questions:

What is the problem you are trying to solve or question you are trying to answer?

What data do you need?

What work do you plan to do in the project?

Which algorithms/techniques/models do you plan to use/develop?Be as specific as you can.

How will you evaluate what you've done?

What do you expect to submit/accomplish by the end of the project?

The project proposal should follow the guidelines provided by the IEEE at:http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/authors_journals.html.Yourproposalpresentation can follow your proposal in text and graphical content.

2.Status Reportand Presentation

The status report can serve as a draft of your final report but without your final analysis and results.You should include at least the following in your status report:

What the problem is that you are trying to solve or question you are trying to answer.

All relevant background information including any relevant literature you have/will use.

The overall process you will follow for the entire project.

A description of your data including how you obtained it.

A description of any relevant, interesting exploratory data analyses.

A description of the methods/techniques/tools/algorithms you have/will use to complete the project.

A description of the challenges you have had working on the project.

A discussion of the parts of the project that have been completed.

A discussion of the parts of the project that remain to be completed.

A discussion of how you will finish the final project report and presentation.

The status report should follow the guidelines provided by the IEEE at:http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/authors_journals.html.Yourstatuspresentation can follow yourstatusin text and graphical content.

3.Final Project Report

The final report and presentation should cover virtually everything about the project.It should cover the situation, problem or challenge that required attention, the relevant background, related work, data, and technical details of the analysis, conclusions and possible directions for future work.It is recognized that not all of the following sections will pertain to each report.However, it is strongly recommended that these section topics be used as a guideline for your final project reports.Final presentations can follow your final report in text and graphical content.

Introduction, motivation and general description of the situation, problem or challenge.

oFollowing the proposal and status report, what is the situation, problem or challenge you are addressing?

oWhat preliminary examination leads you to believe analytics could help?

oWhat are the shortcomings of the current work/analysis that analytics could help with?

Related work.

oProvide a thorough background for the project; e.g. about the company, about the situation, problem or challenge, about other companies that have undergone similar situations, problems or challenges and how they handled them or did not, etc.

oHow does this project relate to other work that has been done on this situation, problem or challenge?

oProvide the appropriate citations/references per the author instructions at:http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/authors_journals.html

Data

oGive a complete description of the data you use during the project, including any you reject.

Provide the source(s) of your data.

Provide a detailed description of your data.

Provide any exploratory data analyses you complete.

Technical Approach

oGive a detailed description of the process for your entire project.

oGiven a detailed description of your approach to the analytics you have proposed to use including any algorithms, methods, tools or techniques.You do not have to describe well known approaches themselves, e.g. linear regression.You do have to describe how you applied the approach you used.

Test and evaluation

oDescribe how you test your approach to ensure that it is valid.

oDiscuss the validity of your approach.

oDescribe how you will evaluate your results and/or conclusions including any specific metrics, output data, completed analyses, etc.

oDiscuss the baseline you will use to compare your results to.

oDiscuss how well your approach worked to address the situation or challenge, solve the problem or answer the research question.

oDiscuss any potential future work.For example, if you were not able to resolve the situation or problem or answer the research question what will it take to do so?What else needs to be done?

oEvaluate and report whether or not someone unfamiliar with your work could accurately replicate it.

The final report should follow the guidelines provided by the IEEE at:http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/authors_journals.html.