1 Overview
There are no universal benchmarks for how quickly a synthesis working group will proceed through the phases of a project’s lifecycle. That said, the milestones below may prove helpful as a general ‘how are we doing?’ temperature check. If your group does not accomplish all of these–or proceeds beyond them–don’t worry too much!
2 Week 3 Benchmarks
Between the week 2 workshop and this workshop, your group should have done (at least some of) the following:
- Written code (version-controlled and stored in GitHub) to:
- Harmonize/standardize your chosen datasets (can be a draft workflow at this point but should be pretty solid)
- Perform preliminary analysis
- Make publication-quality figures
- Finalized your group’s authorship/intellectual credit policy
- Made a reasonably complete set of documentation explaining your project organization schema
- Considered whether custom R functions (or an R package) might make sense for your group’s goals and interests
- Decided whether to make a group website (published via GitHub)
After this week, your group should have done (at least some of) the following:
- Begin planning for where your synthesized data should be archived for others to benefit from
- Written code (version-controlled and stored in GitHub) to:
- Programmatically download data from online repositories (where applicable)
- Perform more polished analysis
- Discussed possible avenues and strategies for communication about your project
- Considered whether to create an interactive Shiny app, Dashboard, etc.
- Built a team website with Quarto and GitHub Pages
And, most importantly, your group should discuss how you want to move forward after the workshop series is complete!
After the third week of this workshop series, we hope that your group uses the relevant skills from these workshops to pursue goals that feel meaningful to you. Keep in mind that specific, actionable tasks are better than vague or open-ended goals but ultimately where you go from here is up to you!
Good luck!