Requirements

For the final project for this course, your team is expected to build a database application with your group members (3~4 students in a group). You will propose several database application ideas to build for your project.

• Final Project Part 1 Submission Open: Friday, 9/12
• Due: Tuesday, 9/23 11:59 p.m.
• Submission: E3. Make one submission per group~~, add all group members to the E3 submission~~ (*updated 09/15: Due to E3's system limitation, please upload one submission per group and we will populate the grades to each member for this submission.)
  • Things you will submit:
    • A PDF file containing all sections
• Grading: 4% 3% of overall grades (20% 15% of final project grades) (*updated 09/15: A typo was made and the correct grade calculation has been updated.)
• Language: English or Mandarin, based on the communication needs for your team

Overview

There are two things to be done for the part 1 of the final project:

1. Team Formation - form a group of 3 to 4
2. Project Ideation Report - Submit project ideas and analysis

Section 1: Team Formation Requirements

Required Components:

1. List of team members (1 point)

Steps to complete:

1. Find Teammates
   • Find others from the class to form a group of 3 to 4.
   • If you have trouble finding teammates, we will open up a discussion thread on Teams for people to seek teammates
2. Team Introduction
   • Chat and get familiar with your teammates
   • Discuss communication preferences and working styles
3. Submit Team Information
   • Format: Name, Student ID, Major/Year
   • Example: Dennis Wang, 113000001, Computer Science/Year 2

Section 2: Project Ideation Report

Required Components:

1. Project Ideas (at least 3 Ideas)

   For each idea, please follow the format for documentation:

   1. Domain: describe the “domain area” of your application (e.g., Health, Finance, Social Media, Food) (0.5 point)
   2. Problem Statement (0.5 point): What specific problem does this application solve? (1-2 sentences)
   3. Data Specifications (0.5 point):
      1. Estimated database size: For this idea, what is the amount of data that you imagine your database would have (e.g., with 1000 entries of student information)? (1-2 sentences)
      2. Data acquisition strategy: How do you plan to get the dataset for your application (e.g., collecting from friends, accessing open dataset released, web scrapping, APIs, etc.)? (1-2 sentences)

2. Reflection Questions: respond to the following questions

   1. Primary Interest (1 point):
      1. Which idea are you the most interested in doing? (0.5 point)
      2. Provide detailed reasoning for your choice. (e.g., Shared Interests among team members, feasibility, etc.) (0.5 point)
   2. Implementation Concerns (0.5 point):
      1. For this idea, what may be the concerns you encounter in terms of implementing the database? Consider technical, data collection, and scalability issues (e.g., challenging to get the dataset because…)