This is the first of a two-part assessment, the second part being the "Data science group project 2". Overall, these project-based assessments aim at providing you with an authentic experience in carrying a simple data science project that covers all essential stages in a data science lifecycle. Because professional projects often require that you work together with others, the assessments must be completed a team.

The current assignment evaluates your ability to:

utilise essential data wrangling techniques (Learning Outcome 2)

perform descriptive and inferential statistical analyses (Learning Outcome 3)

In addition, it seeks to develop the following attributes:

ability to work effectively in a team

professionalism

ethical conduct

Tasks

Your team is required to complete the following tasks, culminating in a recorded presentation:

1. Pitch for a dataset of your choice (for more details, see the section Datasets below)

2. Profile the selected data using descriptive and inferential statistics techniques

3. Propose one main problem to be solved later in the "Data science group project 2"

4. Present the key outcomes of Tasks 1 - 3 above via a recorded presentation of a specified duration