Team Project

Learning Goals

Throughout the course, we have touched upon various phases of the data preparation and workflow management pipeline. In the team project, we bring together all that you have learnt.

Together with your team members, you will

set up a reproducible workflow on GitHub,
apply the end-to-end Git workflow for versioning files, and manage your project using GitHub Issues, and
build and automate a data preparation and analysis pipeline from scratch.

Working on your team project is not only a great refresher on the course content, but especially gives you a better sense of the added value of using Git/GitHub when collaborating with one another, and automation with make with a many source code files.

This project may be different from other projects that you have worked on during your study. In particular, the purpose of this project is not to write an academic research paper, but instead to focus on the infrastructure of working on an academic research paper. More more insights, check the grading guidelines.

Grading

Head over to the grading details to understand what is expected from you in each part of this project.

Teams

Students work in groups
- 4-5 students per team
- Allocation in the first course week
- Enroll your team to the template repository from GitHub classroom (https://classroom.github.com/a/mZWLEDIF)

Coaching

Students can meet the course instructor for feedback during the scheduled coaching sessions (see schedule).

Teams participating in coaching sessions attend the entire session. They typically work together on the team project, and the course instructor will “walk around” (either in breakout rooms on Zoom, or physically) to address students’ questions. There will be approximately 10 minutes per team in total; some teams may prefer to use the entire time at once, while other teams may prefer to ask multiple, short questions over the entire duration of the session.

Use of TeamViewer
We use TeamViewer to allow the course coordinator use your mouse and keyboard to debug code during a Zoom session. Please install TeamViewer and be prepared to share your ID and temporary password.

Links to recordings
Open Science Boost - Hannes’ playlist with videos on how to boost research efficiency
We’re continuously adding new content to Tilburg Science Hub, so bookmark the page and check for updates frequently!
Recorded sessions from previous editions of the course
Three sessions with student teams during the first project week: https://youtu.be/CLpBwDTL5Xg
Background information on why not to version your data, and how to efficiently collaborate using GitHub Issues and the project board: https://youtu.be/pe-Zzu8s0So

Deadline & Submission

The submitted repository on Github classroom is the team project that will be graded.
Deadline: Monday, 25 March (23.59)

Where do I submit my report?
Gotcha! There is no report! The project should self-document itself (e.g., comments in code, makefile), plus you’ll have an amazing README that ties everything together and motivates your project. Make this one shine! :)
Note that we will check out the state of the repository at the deadline date and time, so any changes you make to the repository afterwards are not considered for grading.

Getting started

Data: Kickstart your team project with this data set
Workplan and coaching: What to do, when? Check out the workplan!
Grading: Find out how you'll be graded - and optimize your efforts accordingly!
More resources: Discover example projects and code snippets to use for your team projects.