• The project status report is essentially a summary of what you have done, any challenges you have encountered and if you are on schedule to finish your project. it should be approximately five (5) pages in length following standard guidelines for written graduate papers and should contain at least the following elements: 
• 1. results of any data exploration including plots and/or data visualization.
•  2. a statement about the scope of your project, e.g. whether or not the data set you originally proposed will answer or is adequate to answer the question of interest. or, a statement about whether or not you need to reduce dimensionality or any conduct any other preprocessing.
•  3. a statement about whether or not the analysis technique/methodology you originally proposed still appears to be appropriate to answer your research question using the data set proposed.
•  4. a statement about any challenges you have encountered or anticipate in conducting your project.