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 2 Benchmarks
Between 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: