Course pages 2018–19
Data Science: principles and practice
Practicals
There will be four short practicals. Each practical is worth 5% of the final module mark. These will be `ticked' rather than graded: i.e., for each assignment, 100% of the mark is awarded for satisfactory completion and 0% for inadequate work or failure to submit. This does NOT mean that the answers have to be completely `correct', (there is anyway often genuine disagreement on some aspects of e.g. dataset preprocessing), just that a reasonable and informed attempt has been made.
Students are free to work on these practicals after they have been uploaded to this page after the proceeding lecture but should attend the practical session in order to complete the work and obtain their 'tick'. As a rough guide students should spend no more than 4 hours per practical.
Further information about the practicals can be found here:
Take-home Assessment
- Final Practical: (max. 24 hours) Available after final lecture 28th November
There will be an assessed and graded final practical based on the material covered in the lectures and previous practicals. Students will write a practical report that will consist of a description and evaluation of the work done of not more than 2500 words excluding tables, graphs and images. It will contribute 80% of the final mark. The deadline for handing in completed reports to student administration is Friday 30th November 2018, 5pm.