Capstone Phase#

Structure your Capstone Project#

  • Precisely define your Goal

    • what have others reached?

    • what do you want to reach?

    • what are the steps to get there?

  • Set yourself small tasks to reach your Goal

    • Github Projects with a Kanban Board for Issues
      → great for planning next steps especially in teams

Working on same Data#

  • better exchange with teammates (people face same problems)

  • find quicker solutions to general problems 🦆

  • supplement each other

  • safety in stakeholder calls

  • comparable results

  • drag each other out of rabbit holes

Sessions in Capstone Phase#

  • Daily Stand-Up

    • short meeting with coaches

    • photo/video of the day

    • job interview / recap questions (optional)

  • Weekly Project Management Meeting

    • structuring the project and prioritizing issues

    • discuss blockers and/or issues

    • fine-tuning goals

Sessions in Capstone Phase#

  • Stakeholder Review on midterm

    • after 2 weeks

    • presenting 10 min per group the results of the project so far

    • discussing project and further work with Stakeholders

    • playing roles for a realistic setting

Code Reviews#

Opportunity to code review each other

  • two pairs of eyes see more than one

  • learn from each other

    • someone else solves a problem and you learn

    • maybe you work in time series analysis and want to learn about NLP

  • learn about usual business at work

    • code reviews are important in daily work

    • learn to work with people of the other kind
      → some are slower, some are faster

Meteolytix - Freshly baked!#

Turnover for bakeries and weather data.

  • Time Series

  • Weather Data

  • Stakeholder - probably

Public Datasets#

Sources

Public Datasets#

Sources

Public Datasets#

Sources

Public Datasets#

Data is Plural

Datasets - other common sources#

Challenges and datasets

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