Project 1: Finishing up

Form and structure of weekly project reports

Your report should present a coherent narrative about your analysis. You should structure your submission as a report, rather than as a bullet list of answers to questions.

Part of the learning in this course relates to how to write up the results of a statistical analysis, and the weekly project reports are an opportunity to do this and to get feedback before you have to report on your term-long projects.

In your report, you should include:

1. An introduction and conclusion section that sets the context for (i.e., describes the aims, goals and objectives) and summarizes the major takeaways of the analysis, respectively.
2. Use section headers to help you organize your ideas and to assist the reader to better understand the framework of your analysis.
3. Make sure that for every figure and/or table you include in your write-up, you use figure numbers and captions as well as table numbers and headers. Figure and caption numbers should be unique and sequential. Table numbers and captions go above the table, while figure numbers and captions go below the figure.
4. Reference each figure and/or table individually in the text of your report (e.g., Figure 1 or Table 2). Doing so is reflective of professional writing practices. 
5. Make sure that all parts of each figure are legible and that the information presented in tables is well-organized. 
6. Cite back to the lesson material and text book for ideas that link course concepts to your analysis. This helps to present an intellectual foundation for your analysis and provides evidence that you understand how the theory of the lesson applies to the practice of spatial analysis.
7. While there is a detailed rubric for each lesson (shown in the grade book), I will be particularly checking for evidence of careful examination of the dataset and any of limitations of the data you observe through your exploratory analysis.