DS7010 Dissertation – Research only

Your current knowledge Your MSc objectives Likelihood of finding Dissertation objectives
{undergraduate, MSc {e.g. future employment, relevant open data {show mastery of Data
taught modules, career} promotion etc.} {e.g. UCI, Kaggle} Science techniques}

Introduction
~500 words
Opportunities to learn new Broad topic and objectives
techniques and/or use Vertical (domain specific e.g. finance, health, sport) DS7001
different types of data Horizontal (generic issues e.g. data quality, anonymisation)

Theory/literature

~2000 words
Summarise and critically evaluate state-of-the-art

Literature
Review
Review with Research questions that the
supervisors dissertation seeks to answer

DS7006 Research Design

Ethics
DS7003 Plan of experiments with data and techniques to give
approval?
DS7002 valid answers to research questions
-
Choice/combination of platforms: R, Python, SQL, GIS?

~1500 words
Methodology
-
Choice/combination of techniques and algorithms?
Review with
-
supervisors
Open access quantitative and/or qualitative data: cross-
sectional, time series, case study?

Acquire open access data

Provide description of data, source(s), metadata

Conduct the research design experiments Document in research diary

Review with
supervisors
Presentation of main results
necessary to answer research questions; coherent,
logical narrative with reference to figures, tables, boxes
-
e.g. data exploration, data quality issues, correlation
~5000 words

matrices, dimensionality reduction, test/train subsets

Results

-
e.g. hypothesis testing of difference at 95%CI
-
e.g. model building and testing, improvements through
boosting, training etc.; comparing algorithms
-
consider internal and external validity of results and
implications at each step of analysis
Discussion &
~1000 words
Conclusions

Evidenced discussion and conclusions

Discuss/evaluate results, compare with literature,
consider limitations, answer research questions,
implications/recommendations, future research
Draft to
supervisors
List of references – Harvard style

Appendices Note: total word count of

chapters = 10k, excluding
Additional material supporting main findings
(cross-referenced in Results chapter) figures, tables, boxes, list of
references and appendices
Final annotated scripts
 DS7010 Dissertation – Research + Work Experience

Your work experience Your MSc objectives Likelihood of finding Dissertation objectives
{quantitative data analytics, {e.g. future employment, relevant data {show mastery of Data
data centric function} promotion etc.} {e.g. employer, UCI, Kaggle} Science techniques}

Introduction
~500 words
Opportunities to learn new Broad topic and objectives DS7001
techniques and/or use Vertical (domain specific: work experience sector) Agree weighting of
different types of data Horizontal (generic issues e.g. data quality, anonymisation) work experience
with supervisors
DS7006
Critical review of work experience Work Review
DS7003
analytical pipeline, models, data quality, ethics etc.
DS7002 ~3000 words*

Theory/literature

~1500 words

Literature
Summarise and critically evaluate state-of-the-art

Review
Review with Research questions that the
supervisors dissertation seeks to answer

DS7006 Research Design

Ethics
DS7003 Plan of experiments with data and techniques to give
approval?
DS7002 valid answers to research questions
-
Choice/combination of platforms: R, Python, SQL, GIS?

~1500 words
Methodology
-
Choice/combination of techniques and algorithms?
Review with
-
supervisors
Open access quantitative and/or qualitative data: cross-
sectional, time series, case study?

Acquire relevant data

Provide description of data, source(s), metadata

Conduct the research design experiments Document in research diary

Review with
supervisors
Presentation of main results
necessary to answer research questions; coherent,
logical narrative with reference to figures, tables, boxes
-
~3000 words*

e.g. data exploration, data quality issues, correlation

Results

matrices, dimensionality reduction, test/train subsets

-
e.g. hypothesis testing of difference at 95%CI
-
e.g. model building and testing, improvements through
boosting, training etc.; comparing algorithms
-
consider internal and external validity of results and
implications at each step of analysis
Discussion &
~1500 words
Conclusions

Evidenced discussion and conclusions

Discuss/evaluate results, compare with literature,
consider limitations, answer research questions,
implications/recommendations, future research
Draft to
supervisors
List of references – Harvard style Note: total word count of
chapters = 10k, excluding
Appendices figures, tables, boxes, list of
Additional material supporting main findings references and appendices
(cross-referenced in Results chapter) * Word count balanced pro
Final annotated scripts rata by weighting of work
experience