Project Proposal Feedback

[dashiellward]

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name: Proposal peer review about: Peer review of final project proposal title: Proposal peer review labels: '' assignees: ''

The following is the peer review of the project proposal by [name of team completing peer review]. The team members that participated in this review are

• [Dashiell Ward] - @[teamdashiellsteam]

• Describe the goal of the project.

It appears as though the goal of this project is to quantify the "vibe" of institutions of higher education so as to provide prospective students with a more informative, and realisitc portrait of what a respective school might be like. This seems like an exciting project, and I hope that it proves succesful - retiring the present regime of university ratings is a worthy cause, and "vibe" a worthy metric!

• Describe the data used or collected.

The data appears to be student perspectives, allowing for present enrollees to represent the institution themselves. Web crawling and scraping algorithms will be used to determine students' perspectives of Reed, first, and other institutions if time allows.

• Describe how the research question will be answered, e.g. what approaches / methods will be used.

A sentiment analysis, employing a text classifier to categorize students' perspectives, will be performed. Results will be visualized as scores on an interactive dashboard.

• Is there anything that is unclear from the proposal?

Not that I see - the proposal is remarkably thorough. I would be curious to hear more about how it is that they plan to incorporate further schools, but they do address this in broad strokes.

• Provide constructive feedback on how the team might be able to improve their project.

The use of perspectives Reed students have shared online as the data for the sentiment analysis may result in a negative skew; anecdotally, any tweet which follows the format of a complaint, a verb, and "Reed College" will usually garner at least thirty likes. I am unfamiliar with an abundance of positive views being shared online.

• What aspect of this project are you most interested in and would like to see highlighted in the presentation.

I think that the forward looking perspective the project leader(s) clearly wield is encouraging, as I find the subject a worthwhile exercise / use of time. I would like to hear about how tenable they beleive this sort of classification of institutions (by "vibe" score) to be, on a wider scale.

• Provide constructive feedback on any issues with file and/or code organization.

I did not encounter any such issues.

• (Optional) Any further comments or feedback?

I think this is a fabulous idea. Best of luck!

[Julianj22]

We were able to address the issue of the potential negative skew, by collecting reviews from Unigo, and not a platform like Twitter, where comments would become more visible to our scraping efforts if they were more negative(as Dashiell comments).