PMGM7023 Chap.12 The Team Analytic Project
The Team Analytic Project
Three dimensions, four bands, then deductions
The project is worth 30% of the course and is assessed on three dimensions of fifty points each, giving 150 before deductions.
Each dimension is rated at one of four behaviour-anchored levels worth 50, 40, 30 or 20 points, so the practical question is which band your work occupies on each of three independent axes rather than how good it is overall.
On the research question, the top band requires a focused, meaningful and testable question whose importance is explained and which guides the project throughout, at least two academic papers accurately cited and explained so their support for your argument is visible, plausible confounding variables identified with a justification of which are controlled, and conclusions acknowledging what remains uncontrolled.
Dropping a band is usually about the connection to the project being underdeveloped rather than about missing papers.
On data and methods, the top band requires data the team collected through web scraping, the source website and URLs identified, the collection dates, scope and procedure documented, a stated reason the data suit the question, a workflow that allows the collection to be checked and rerun, documented and justified cleaning decisions, and a method chosen over plausible alternatives with its assumptions addressed.
The brief states plainly that what earns marks is whether the method fits and is defended, not how many analyses appear.
On results and recommended actions, the top band requires relevant and accurate descriptive statistics, clear visualisations, correctly executed analysis, interpretation with appropriate qualifications, and specific feasible actions following logically from the findings.
Nine deduction lines, applied cumulatively
Two lines cost twenty points each and cannot be retrofitted.
Simulated, fake or fabricated data, explicitly including generated or synthetic source data, is one; findings that cannot be reproduced from the submitted data, workflow and instructions is the other.
A ten-point line requires at least two academic citations each appearing inside the body and attached to a specific argument, so a reference list nobody cites does not satisfy it.
Six five-point lines are format: a body of 3,500 words or fewer, with text inside tables, figures and captions counting toward it while the cover page, the summary, the reference list and any appendix do not;
an executive summary of 250 words or fewer on the cover page; that summary naming what was asked, what was found, what is recommended and the biggest limit on it with numbers matching the body; the group number and all members' names on the cover page as the first page;
upload to the correct drop box under the stated file name; and the report in Markdown with the data file in comma-separated form.
What to submit, and when
The submission set is the report in Markdown, the original and cleaned data as comma-separated files with the two versions distinguished and the variables explained, and one supporting document recording which sites and addresses the data came from, when it was collected, what each variable means, and the main cleaning and analysis decisions.
That document also explains how the team used the assistant, naming the main requests made, the sequence followed and the way outputs were checked.
A submission one day late or less costs 10%, later than that but still before the debriefing session costs 20%, and once the debriefing has passed the work receives nothing. Since the debriefing falls during teaching time, being a few days late is not a survivable position.
A separate personal risk is the confidential team survey: failure to complete it results in a ten-point deduction from your individual grade, independently of how the project scored.
What this chapter covers
- 01
Three rubric dimensions rated on four behaviour-anchored bands
- 02
The deduction ladder and which two lines cannot be repaired late
- 03
What reproducible means in the submitted file set
- 04
The late schedule and the individual survey deduction
Auditing a finished draft against the deduction lines
- 3Check the two word-count lines against what the brief counts.
- 3Check the cover page, file format and drop box lines.
- 4Check the citation line and total the deductions.
Key terms
- Behaviour-Anchored Level
- A behaviour-anchored level is a rating band described by what the work does rather than by a score, so a project is matched to the description that best fits it.
- Executive Summary
- An executive summary is the cover-page statement naming what was asked, what was found, what is recommended and the biggest limit on that recommendation, with figures agreeing with the body.
- Reproducibility
- Reproducibility is the property that submitted data, workflow and instructions let another person obtain the reported findings again.
- Confounding Variable
- A confounding variable is a third factor related to both the outcome and the suspected cause, which can produce an association that is not what it appears.
The Team Analytic Project FAQ
How many points can formatting mistakes cost on the project?
Six published lines cost five points each and one costs ten, so a project with a sound argument can lose twenty-five points to word counts, a missing cover-page element, the wrong file format and uncited references. Two further lines cost twenty points each, for data that are not genuine and for findings that cannot be reproduced, and neither of those can be repaired after submission.
What makes a project reproducible in the sense the rubric means?
The submitted data, the code or analysis workflow and the instructions together have to let someone else obtain the findings you reported. In practice that means the original and cleaned data are both submitted and distinguished, the cleaning and analysis decisions are documented, and the supporting document names the sites and addresses used, the collection dates, what each variable means and the way outputs were checked.
Exam move
Read the three dimension descriptors in week one and place your plan in a band on each before any writing starts. Keep the supporting document from the first collection session rather than assembling it at the end. Run the nine deduction lines as a written checklist a week before the deadline, and complete the team survey as soon as it opens.
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