Worksheet — Final Project Pitch Day

A 3-minute pitch of your question, data, and plan — plus structured peer feedback

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Pitch day for the final project. Each student gives a 3-minute pitch of their research question, dataset, and analysis plan; classmates give structured feedback using the form below. Runs across both class days of the week.

Author

Bill Perry

Published

September 10, 2026

Final Project Pitch Day

This is a working session, not a lecture. Over the two class days everyone pitches, everyone gives feedback, and everyone leaves with a to-do list for Milestone 2.

What you bring

  • One slide (or one figure on screen, or even a sketch on the doc camera) showing:
    • your question as one sentence
    • H₀ and Hₐ in one sentence each
    • your dataset: what it is, where it’s from, how many rows/columns, your X and Y
    • the one figure you hope to make (the take-home graph)
    • the method you plan to use (regression / t-test / ANOVA / regression on year) and why

The pitch (3 minutes, timed)

  1. The hook (30 s): why do you care about this question?
  2. The data (60 s): what you have, and one thing that worries you about it.
  3. The plan (60 s): your X, Y, method, and the figure that would answer the question.
  4. The ask (30 s): one specific thing you want feedback on.

Peer feedback form

Fill one of these out for every pitch you watch. Hand them to the presenter at the end of class — they are part of your activity grade, and the presenter turns them in with their Milestone 2.

Presenter: ____________________       Your name: ____________________

1. Restate their question back in your own words:


2. Could you tell what the X and Y variables are?   clear / fuzzy / couldn't tell
   If fuzzy: what was unclear?


3. Does the method fit the X and Y?   yes / no / not sure
   (numeric X -> regression; 2-group X -> t-test; 3+ group X -> ANOVA; time -> regression on year)
   If no / not sure, say why:


4. The single most useful thing they could do before Milestone 2:


5. One thing that is already strong about this project:

Presenter’s turn — after you pitch

Collect your feedback forms and, on this worksheet, write:

The question I got asked most often:


One change I am making to my question or method based on feedback:


My dataset is / is not confirmed loadable in R (read_csv/read_excel ran clean):


My top 3 to-dos before Milestone 2:
1.
2.
3.

What you turn in

Next: keep building toward Milestone 2 — a cleaned dataset loaded in R and a first draft figure.