Computer Science and Information Technology Department

College of Engineering
COE102 – Fall 24-25 – Project – Phase 1
Marks: out of 9 marks
Objective and Overview (9%)

 Applying the first (business understanding) and second part (Data understanding) of the CRISP process.
Group submissions
Grading Rules - rubric (See end of document for more details) (4 members per
group)
 Problem Selection and Business Perspective:
1. Clarity and relevance of the selected problem.
3 marks
2. Understanding of the business context and objectives.
3. Justification for the choice of the problem and its significance.
 Data Report:
1. Description of the dataset, including data source and data size.
2. Explanation of the data scales.
5 marks
3. Identification of data types and their relevance to the problem.
4. Assessment of data quality, including missing values, inconsistencies, and
potential biases.
 Report format:
1. Clarity and coherence of the report structure.
2. Quality of writing, including grammar, punctuation, and spelling. 1 marks
3. Proper citation of sources and adherence to the formatting guidelines.
4. Visual aids (e.g., tables, charts, or diagrams) to support the report content.

Submission Rules

 Reports with high similarity will be reported to OAI

 All reports must comply with the requested format in terms of outline, text style and size, paragraph alignment,
line spacing, Figures/Tables captions, … etc.
 For any part that requires screenshot from Power BI, screenshots showing the personal identifier (i.e.,
username of the students should be provided in the appendix). However, within the text, clean charts/diagrams
should be provided.
 This is a group submission, however, individual grades can assigned in case of unequal contributions among the
team members
 Indicate members contributions on the cover page of the report.

 Deadline: Saturday October 20th 2024, Late submissions will be penalized 5% of the grade on every late day.
 Deliverables: Business and data understanding reports ( Microsoft word file)
Objectives and overview:
 1. Students are expected to choose one dataset from the datasets repository
2. For the selected problem, they need to explain the problem from a business perspective.
3. After that, they need to prepare a data report explaining the data in terms of scales, data types, and
data quality.

Tasks:
A set of datasets are available on the course Blackboard. A “Read Me” file is also uploaded for each
dataset to provide you with a brief description of the dataset attributes.
Choose ONE dataset with your group members for your term project and perform the following tasks:

Task 1: Business Understanding Report:

1. A clear description of the business domain you are tackling in your project, this section is
expected to be no less than 4 paragraphs, supported with illustrations or existing statistics with
proper citation. In addition, you should describe what real-life problem your project will be
tackling and what benefits will be gained from the results of your project.
2. Cite any references or external sources that you used during analyzing the business
requirements.

Task 2: Data Understanding Report:

1. Data Description Report: Describe the data that has been acquired including its format, its
statistics (for example, the number of records and fields in each table), scales types, and data types
used to store these scales. Your report must be supported by screenshots from Power BI
2. Data Quality Report: Explore and evaluate whether the data acquired satisfies your requirements:
is there any missing data, invalid data, inconsistent data ranges (for example negative blood
pressure or invalid human age value such as 300 years, … etc).
Notes:
 Screenshots from Power BI showing the student personal identifier are required
 The data description report must be comprehensive and clearly explain the features of the
dataset
 The data quality report must be comprehensive and explain all data issues

o Grading rubric:

2
 90%-100%
Criteria 50%-70% (Poor) 70%-90% (Good) Marks
(Excellent)
The selected problem
The problem is clearly
is clearly defined,
defined and relevant,
The selected problem is highly relevant, and
with an adequate
vague or undefined, with engaging. A deep
understanding of the
superficial or no understanding of the
business context and
Problem understanding of business context and
objectives. A
Selection and business context and objectives is
reasonable /3
Business objectives. demonstrated, with a
justification for
Perspective The justification for choosing the compelling
choosing the problem is problem is provided, justification for
lacking or unclear, failing choosing the
along with a clear
to convey its significance. problem and
explanation of its
wellarticulated
significance.
significance.
The dataset
The dataset description description is
is minimal, lacking key The dataset comprehensive,
details like data source description is covering data source,
and size. Data scales are adequate, size, and relevant
encompassing data details. Data scales
unexplained or
source and size. Data and
incorrect, data types
scales and types are types are accurately
unidentified,
Data accurately explained, explained with
and their relevance to
Understanding highlighting their examples, and their /5
the
Report relevance to the relevance to the
problem unclear. The
problem. A satisfactory problem is discussed.
data quality assessment
data quality A thorough data
is
assessment addresses quality
missing or incomplete,
missing values, assessment addresses
neglecting missing inconsistencies, and missing values,
values, inconsistencies, potential biases. inconsistencies, biases,
or biases. and suggests strategies
to handle these issues.
The report is clear and The report is
The report is poorly coherent, with well- exceptionally
structured and organized content and structured, engaging,
disorganized, with minimal writing and well-organized,
numerous writing errors errors. with flawless writing
and inconsistent and impeccable
Citations are mostly
Report format citations. Visual aids are citations. Highly /1
consistent, and visual
either absent or effective and visually
aids effectively
ineffective, failing to appealing visual aids
support
support the enhance the content,
content and presenting the content, conveying demonstrating
an unclear narrative. a comprehensible consistently applied
narrative to the reader. formatting.