Overview

The best way to learn is by doing. That’s why, over the these three days, you are tasked with analysing, visualising and reporting on a set of data!

Roughly 50% of our intensive is dedicated to working on the project. Working in groups of 2-4, you’ll need to use the techniques we learn to draw some observations about your chosen dataset.

The end goal will be a quick fire (low stakes) one-minute presentation with a dashboard to complement.

See the datasets page for the data and below for submission details.

Project outline

There are a few key requirements for the project, but otherwise it’s up to you!

• Analyse a dataset and create some visualisations
• Put together a final dashboard-style report. Anything from a powerpoint slide to an interactive dashboard will do!
• Deliver a quick fire one-minute presentation with your group

We’ll have 5 sessions during the intensive days to work on the project, just shy of six hours. The goal of these sessions is twofold

1. To work on the project, analysing data and creating visualisations
2. To dive deeper into the content, perfect for questions and conversations

While you’ll be working in groups, everyone should practise analysing and visualising the data. We recommend distributing roles amongst the group, maybe looking at different variables or different presentation formats.

You’re welcome to use the project time however you’d like. Below is a rough guide if you’re unsure:

Session	Recommendation
Tuesday afternoon	Pick a dataset and play with the data, consider dividing roles amongst group
Wednesday morning	More exploratory analysis, start collecting initial visualisations
Wednesday afternoon	Preparing format (e.g. dashboard), continue analysing and creating visualisation
Thursday morning	Polish up results and finalise dashboard, begin merging work across group
Thursday afternoon	Finish up dashboard and upload

The presentations will be during Thursday’s final session at 2:50pm.

Good luck!

Design and submissions

We’ve put together an example dashboard which you’re welcome to start from. Download the code to have a look at our example. You can also see a gallery of examples on Quarto’s website.

Uploading the submission

Below are two ways you can upload your visualisations.

You should consider where your dashboard gets its data from. Our repo has all datasets in the data_sources folder, so you have two options:

1. Include the data in your dashboard’s folder that you upload.
2. Use the relative reference ../../data_sources/data_set_of_your_choice.csv to access the data on our repo

We’ve used the second option in the example project.

When you are ready to upload, you have two options:

Upload dashboard to GitHub

This is the advanced way of doing things - we recommend this way, because it’ll show you a good insight into using GitHub.

1. Create a GitHub account and log in
2. Create a fork of our python-training-intensive repository. This is a copy of the repo in your account, changes will not automatically affect the main repo. Leave all settings unchanged.
3. Create a folder for your dashboard inside the Projects directory
   1. Go into the Projects folder, and click Add file \(\rightarrow\) Create new file. This will be your folder.
   2. Give it a name but no content.
   3. Press Commit changes....
4. Upload your files
   1. Go into your new folder and click Add file \(\rightarrow\) Upload files.
   2. Upload your dashboard and associated files.
   3. Press Commit changes.
5. Merge your repo with ours
   1. Press <> Code (top left) to go back to the top level of the repo
   2. Press Contribute \(\rightarrow\) Open pull request to request merging your files into the main repo
   3. Press Create pull request when you’re ready.
   4. If you need to make further changes, no worries - the pull request will stay up to date with these until approved or closed.

Give it a go if you can!

If there’s any issues, we’ll leave a comment for you to fix up the merge and we’ll approve it when ready.

Upload dashboard to Teams

If you’re having issues with the GitHub approach, we can upload it for you. Just put your folder with the dashboard into our Teams folder.