2610 - BUSINESS ANALYTICS SPECIAL PROJECT

2. Course Unit Content/Calendar

1. Components of the Project:

o   Project Charter: a formal document that describes the project in its entirety, including, for instance, the definition of the problem, the goals of the project, the team and their specific roles, the identification of the deliverables, a list of the risks identified and mitigation actions, the data that will be used, among other.

The Data Dictionary, a document that allows anyone to easily understand a dataset, should also be included in this deliverable.

o   Exploratory Data Analysis: process of performing initial investigations on data - discover patterns, spot anomalies, test hypothesis and check assumptions with the help of summary statistics and graphical representations.

o   Modeling Roadmap: a document specifying the modelling dataset, the models to be trained, and the models' validation and evaluation. It should also describe the Baseline model that will be used to establish a benchmark against which the models will be evaluated.

o   Modeling Report: a report in which the results obtained in the modelling stage are described, including results from a bias audit, if applicable, to exploring potential unintended consequences of deploying the model. In the report you should also describe the evaluation metrics used and why, the evaluation of the models tested and the final selection. Moreover, it should also include a section Plan for Testing that specifies how the model adoption and realworld performance may be tested.

o   Pipeline: the sequence of steps that need to be taken from raw data to model results. The pipeline is the whole code used, which includes the preprocessing code, the modeling code, and any other code used to produce the results. The output of this component should be a Github page for the Project.

2. Regular meetings with the Team’s supervisors and also with the project partner