Group Project: Preliminary Presentation

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The preliminary presentation will be made in private setting with the professor and should cover the same material identified in the written report, but in oral form.  The purpose of the presentation is to get immediate feedback on the structure, organization, and content of what will ultimately become your final report. You should clearly and succinctly identify the purpose of the project, data sources, and an outline of the questions and models you plan to include in your final report.

Suggested outline:

Introduction and key question(s) to be addressed and main findings (motivation for study, key questions)

Data and methods (how data was collected, including levels of measurement, data sources, creation of indexes if any, and sampling methodology. How it was analyzed, including naming and justifying analytic techniques based on levels of measurement, basic descriptions of data and descriptive statistics, confidence intervals of dependent variable and key independent variable(s))

Findings (Clearly identify the research question and progress through analytic tools drawing intermediate conclusions and interpretations and culminate with a definitive answer to the question based on the data given. Generally should include at least one bivariate analysis and one multivariate analysis, though variations are possible)

Limitations of study (Thoroughly describe the limitations of the data and methods employed)

Conclusions/implications/recommendations (Implications and recommendations may include policy or management actions to be taken based on the results of the analysis or may be recommendations for improvement of the data collection and analysis procedures).

It is NOT expected that you will have conclusions or findings at this point in your development, but you should have an idea of what the questions are and what you might expect to find, based on the bivariate analysis you have already completed. The organization of your presentation should be in place and a key component of this early feedback session. Much of this presentation will likely take outline form and formative discussion with the professor rather than the form of a more polished, finished presentation.

A template that may be helpful for you as you organize your team project is located here:

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