Final project: Final submission

The purpose of this final project is to provide an opportunity for you to freely explore your interests in archaeology and data science in a collaborative setting, and demonstrate your skills and passion for the topic.

Your final submission should generally follow the same structure that we have been using in our weekly lab reports, and demonstrate all of good practices we have discussed throughout the quarter. follow this structure, with these headings:

• Introduction: state your research question, it should be similar to what you submitted previously, it should end in a question mark, and should incorporate any feedback you received
• Data: describe your data (how many items? from what geographic locations? representing what time periods? etc.) and give the citation of the source of the data so others can find it. Include at least one example of inline R code here (and no hard-coded numeric values in your narrative text). 
• Visualisation and Analysis: One visualisation or panel of visualisations (e.g. using cowplot) from each member of your group that explores the data, each visualisation must have some explanatory text that describes patterns, contrasts, relationships, etc. in the data that the visualisation reveals. Each visualisation must have a brief, meaningful, numbed caption that includes that name of the group member that produced it. At least one of these visualisations should be directly and obviously relevant to answering your research question, and this should be clearly cross-referenced in your narrative text.
• Conclusion: A few detailed sentences that restate the research question, and describe specifically how the data suggest an answer to the question. Your main conclusion must be a statement what physical remains (artefacts, bones, etc.) tell us about human behaviour and relationships in the past. 
• References: Include a reference to the data source, and other scholarly items relevant to your question that you have cited in your narrative. Each group member needs to contribute one relevant reference, and ensure it is cited in a meaningful way in your narrative. 

Aim for around 750-1000 words, all inclusive. 

The author field in your YAML block should include names for everyone in your group, with your name first.

All visualisations and other contents of your report must be fully reproducible with the Quarto document and data submitted with your assignment. 

Each member of your group needs to make their own submission to this assignment. You can use the exact same code and captions as your group members. Your narrative text should be your own words. You should all have the same general findings and conclusions, but you need to put them in your own words. We should be able to render your document when we grade it, so please double-check that all members of your group can knit before submitting

You need to submit here:

• An HTML file of output generated from your qmd file. Their content must match, so be sure to render just before submitting. Then the HTML file will have the same content as your qmd file. We should be able to see your R code blocks in your HTML file. 
• An qmd file that lists all the names of your group members in the 'author:' field (and has a descriptive, professional title)
• The data file that you are working on (in whatever format it comes in, Excel is fine)
• Narrative text in your qmd that includes the headings and text in your own words, as indicated above
• A minimum of three code blocks in your qmd 
• At least one meaningful example of inline R code in your narrative text
• For each group member, a code block in your qmd that produces one relevant exploratory data visualisation
• Each visualisation should have a descriptive, professional caption and a cross-reference in the narrative text
• Each figure should include in the caption the name of the person who contributed it
• You may include a map, artefact or other image if that will help you tell your story about the data, but it is not required

There is a high chance that you will do original research for this assignment that will be of broad interest to the international archaeological community. A first step to sharing your research beyond the class is to prepare a poster to present at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium Links to an external site., held on campus every Spring. Presenting at the symposium is not required for this class, but I highly recommend you consider it, and I will work with you to help you prepare a high-quality poster. I usually work with undergraduate students every year to present at this symposium and it is an exciting and highly fulfilling experience. Beyond this symposium, you may want to consider presenting at an international conference or expanding your report to submit for publication in an international peer-reviewed journal. If these options interest you, let me know and we'll make a plan! Everyone who presents their ARCHY 208 final project in person at the URS will have their grade for the class rounded up to exactly 4.0.