2. Checkpoint

At this point, you should have begun some preliminary data exploration and preprocessing. You may have also begun building your model pipeline. Your checkpoint report should again be 1-2 pages with the following sections:

Wins

What has been working so far? What are you excited about? Share your good news! This would be a good place to show some preliminary results or interesting data discoveries.

Challenges

What challenges (foreseen or otherwise) have you encountered? Is there anything in particular that you need help to get past?

Remaining work

What do you have left to do on your project? Is it feasible within the time constraints? If not, how do you plan to revise your project plan?

Project revision (if needed)

As a result of your progress to date, do you anticipate any changes to your project plan? It’s okay if it’s a significant change - perhaps you discovered a better dataset, or came up with a different approach.

If you do have major changes, please cite the relevant sources for your new revised project.

References

This section may not be necessary if you don’t have significant changes.

Marking Scheme

Using the usual 4 point scale, I will be assessing the following categories:

• Reasonable amount of progress made on project
• Description of challenges and assessment of progress
• Remaining work and revision (if needed)
• Overall coherence and clarity

For a total of 16 points.