Table 1.

Project grading rubric.

	✓–	✓	✓+
Questions	Questions overly simplistic, unrelated, or unmotivated	Questions appropriate, coherent, and motivated	Questions well motivated, interesting, insightful, and novel
Analysis	Choice of analysis overly simplistic or incomplete	Analysis appropriate	Analysis appropriate, complete, advanced, and informative
Results	Conclusions missing, incorrect, or not based on analysis	Conclusions relevant, but partially correct or partially complete	Relevant conclusions tied to analysis and context
	Inappropriate choice of plots; poorly labeled plots; plots missing	Plots convey information but lack context for interpretation	Plots convey information correctly with adequate and appropriate reference information
Collaboration	Few members contributed substantial effort or each members worked on only part of project	All members contributed substantial effort and everyone contributed to all aspects of project	All members contributed substantial effort to each project aspect
Tests	Tests incomplete, incorrect, or missing	Tests cover most of the project code	Extensive and comprehensive testing
Code review	Pull requests not adequately used, reviewed, or improved	Pull requests adequately used, reviewed, and improved	Code review substantial and extensive
Documentation	Poorly documented	Adequately documented	Well documented
Readability	Code readability inconsistent or poor	Code readability consistent and good quality	Code readability excellent
Organization	Poorly organized and structured repository	Reasonably organized and clear structure	Elegant and transparent code organization
Presentation	Verbal presentation illogical, incorrect, or incoherent	Verbal presentation partially correct but incomplete or unconvincing	Verbal presentation correct, complete, and convincing
	Visual presentation cluttered, disjoint, or illegible	Visual presentation is readable and clear	Visual presentation appealing, informative, and crisp
	Verbal and visual presentation unrelated	Verbal and visual presentation related	Verbal and visual presentation clearly related
Writing	Explanation illogical, incorrect, or incoherent	Explanation correct, complete, and convincing	Explanation correct, complete, convincing, and elegant
Reproduciblity	Code didn't run	Makefile recipes fetch data, validates fetched data, generates all results and figures in report	Makefiles generate EDA work and supplementary analysis

An “A” was roughly two or more check pluses and no check minuses.