Due: Friday, February 10, 16:59 via Canvas
Submit a report describing your initial results.
The goal of this assignment is to ensure that you are on the right track with your project. Rather than leaving all the work to a mad rush at the end of the quarter, you will ensure that you are making good progress throughout. This forcing function will ensure that your methodology is complete and your experimental tools are operational and able to process data. Feedback will ensure that you are making good progress.
Your report will include (nearly) everything you have written so far: there is no need to rewrite, nor to delete except where your plans have changed. You will also need to add new text expanding on your methodology and presenting and discussing your initial results. One thing that will change from previous iterations is your schedule. Show the schedule from your proposal and a new schedule that you now propose. This might be the same, but if not, then discuss why you changed the schedule and what you learned from that.
You should have some initial results, but it doesn't have to be a lot. Your date analysis pipeline works, so even showing that you can process a few datapoints automatically is fine.
When generating tables and figures, never cut-and-paste numbers from one location to another. It's best if all tables and figures in your document are automatically generated. It's acceptable to use a GUI program if you prefer it, such as Excel for generating plots, but in this case your experimental infrastructure should still create the full file, with no cut-and-pasting within Excel. You should just start Excel, open the file, then export the PDF file with the figure. Automatically generating your tables has two advantages. First, it prevents errors. Second, it enables you to easily re-generate them as often as you like, without extra manual effort.
Your report should indicate where to find an version control repository that contains the scripts to reproduce your results. That version control repository should document how someone not on your team can create all the tables and figures in your report.
By Monday night, email the instructor a link to one or more repositories, which should have sufficient instructions to enable someone who is not on your team to reproduce all of your results.