3 of 16 weeks closed (19 percent of the semester).Week by week
The semester as sixteen rows: what class covered, what was due, what the project needed that week, and how it went
The current week is 4. Weeks run Monday to Sunday with class on Wednesday; homework is due at 11:59 pm on the dates the schedule page prints (mostly Mondays, HW3 on a Friday, HW12 and HW13 on Sundays). The status and progress_note columns in data/weeks.csv are the team’s own record: set the status when a week closes and write one honest line about what got done.
Progress so far
The table
| Wk | Class | Topic | Quiz | Homework due | Project due | Project focus | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed Aug 26 | Getting Started: orientation, intro to conjoint, R and Positron, project intros | HW1 (Mon Aug 31) | Meet the project list; start thinking about teams | Done | HW1 submitted on time | ||
| 2 | Wed Sep 2 | Agentic Workflows: GitHub, Claude Code in Positron, modes, skills, working safely | HW2 (Mon Sep 8) | Team formation open; scout topics against the selection criteria | Done | In-class agentic exercise: this tracker site was built and published; HW2 submitted | ||
| 3 | Wed Sep 9 | Data Wrangling (tidyverse); decision variables vs attributes | Quiz 1 (wks 1-2) | Proposal (Sun Sep 20) | Team and topic settled; proposal drafting | Done | Team of five formed; the professor created the official repo Sep 10; topic chosen: Smart Urban Living; proposal draft v1 rendered Sep 15 | |
| 4 | Wed Sep 16 | No lecture: Proposal Workshop, remote team meetings with the professor | HW3 (Fri Sep 18) | Rubric review of the draft, workshop feedback, revise, move into the official repo, submit by Sun Sep 20 | In progress | Sep 16: brainstorming repo live, official repo joined, draft reviewed against the rubric, tracker replanned with a computed critical path | ||
| 5 | Wed Sep 23 | Quarto and Plotting; project scope: attribute levels, target population, competitors | Quiz 2 (wk 3) | HW4 (Mon Sep 28) | Survey Plan (Tue Sep 29) | Survey plan: lock attributes and levels, eligibility text, choice question text, survey content | Upcoming | |
| 6 | Wed Sep 30 | Intro to surveydown; make the survey plan | HW5 (Mon Oct 5) | Pilot Survey (Tue Oct 13) | Learn the surveydown template; sign up for the survey-plan meeting | Upcoming | ||
| 7 | Wed Oct 7 | Conjoint Questions: cbc_design, labeled vs unlabeled, surveydown | Quiz 3 (wk 5) | HW6 (Mon Oct 12) | Design file (choice_questions.csv); survey.qmd; Supabase; deploy to shinyapps.io | Upcoming | ||
| 8 | Wed Oct 14 | Utility Models; finish pilot survey | HW7 (Mon Oct 19) | Pilot survey live; fix anything the professor flags | Upcoming | |||
| 9 | Wed Oct 21 | Optimization and MLE; everyone takes everyone else's pilot survey | Quiz 4 (wk 8) | HW8 (Mon Oct 26) | Pilot Analysis (Sun Nov 1) | Collect classmate responses and feedback; start cleaning | Upcoming | |
| 10 | Wed Oct 28 | Uncertainty; pivoting; cleaning pilot data; estimating pilot models | HW9 (Mon Nov 2) | Preliminary models, power analysis, pilot report | Upcoming | |||
| 11 | Wed Nov 4 | DOE and Power Analysis; refine attributes and levels, sample size | Quiz 5 (wk 9) | HW10 (Mon Nov 9) | Final Survey (Sun Nov 15) | Apply pilot lessons to the final survey; scaffold the final analysis scripts | Upcoming | |
| 12 | Wed Nov 11 | WTP and Simulation; finalize final survey | HW11 (Mon Nov 16) | Final survey deployed; eligibility text ready; confirm the Prolific launch date | Upcoming | |||
| 13 | Wed Nov 18 | Heterogeneity: mixed logit and sub-group models | Quiz 6 (wk 12) | HW12 (Sun Nov 22) | Final Analysis Report (Sun Dec 6) | Survey in the field; analysis scripts ready to re-run | Upcoming | |
| 14 | Wed Nov 25 | Thanksgiving, no class; final survey fielding | HW13 (Sun Nov 29) | Data collection on Prolific; clean as data lands | Upcoming | |||
| 15 | Wed Dec 2 | Final Exam (45 min), exam solutions, what goes in the final report, how to give a talk | Exam | Models, WTP, simulation, sensitivity, report | Upcoming | |||
| 16 | Wed Dec 9 | Final Presentations: in-class showcase with Q and A | Final Presentation (Tue Dec 8) | Slides, rehearsal, present | Upcoming |
Reading the cadence
Quizzes fall in weeks 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13 and each covers only the material since the previous one; the lowest of six is dropped. Project deliverables land roughly every two to three weeks from week 3 onward, and the heaviest stretch is weeks 9 to 13, when the pilot analysis, final survey and final report overlap with HW8 to HW12 and three quizzes. Week 14 is Thanksgiving with no class but the final survey in the field, so the final analysis cannot start until the data lands; that is the tightest link in the critical path.