A few quick announcements.
1. The deadline for phase III is Wednesday (10-11-2010) morning 6 am. A dropbox will be created and opened on blackboard for this purpose. Your deliverable for the project will be a power-point presentation with an upper limit of 30 slides for the main presentation and no limit for auxiliary or backup slides
2. Lecture 10 will essentially be student group presentations of their project report. Kindly ensure the entire group is present in class for this purpose. Groups will be picked up at random. Presenting groups will have 15 minutes of talk time + 3 minutes of Q&A from the class at large. My colleague, prof. Tanuka Ghoshal, who once worked with IMRB Calcutta (real MKTR experience, folks!) has kindly agreed to join the panel evaluating the presentations.
OK, a few groups, maybe 4-5 can be accommodated in class, what about the rest? SO, I'll ask the other groups to take a 20 minute appointment with me and make the presentations. Shall book a conference room/MLT for the purpose. This is to ensure all groups get a fair chance to showcase their PPts, their thinking and emphasize their recommendations to XYZ.
I'll create a google spreadsheet on view access which I will fillup as you email me your preferred slots for. I'm told that since many folks have travel plans for the next weekend, I'd rather get presentations for groups of sections A and B done on Wednesday (10-Nov) itself in the evening, and those for sections C & D on 11-Nov in the evening.
3.Pls find below the lastest update on group respondent collection status. 2951 responses in and still counting, folks! This is exciting. Even dicounting say, 10% to within ISB multiple surveys by a single respondent and another 20% to incomplete/unusable survey, we still end up with a neat 2000 odd usable responses. Wow. Great going there.
4. I've been asked to write up the logic behind the way the final questionnaire has been structured. I shall attempt to provide a write-up for my thinking when I put this together, with ample help from the AAs. A lot of this hinges on what was written in the scope document and the interpretation of which was further expanded upon in this blogpost:
http://marketing-yogi.blogspot.com/2010/10/some-phase-i-guidance.html
Kindly read the above post in full if you haven't already. It pretty much represents the tack I have tried to take in designing the phase II survey. However, you needn't feel constrained with my thought process and could feel free to use the info collected to support the story you may have had in mind a priori. I shall do this over the next few days.
Even otherwise, I plan to dig up and post useful info relating to what last year's class got right and wrong regarding their project in phase III last year. Now, there's no reason why you should repeat mistakes already made last year. Hence, I would certainly recommend that at least a few people from each group keep an eye on the blog for updates in this regard.
5. I was thinking of holding an 'open' tutorial on JMP, methods, anything project related etc over the weekend sometime. Friday is diwali, sat and sun, am told many folks are traveling home for the weekend. Well, I'll try to make this monday evening sometime for roughly an hour then.
6. You may have noticed already that the final slides putup on blackboard may have some slides that either weren't covered in a particular section or have been altered significantly since. This happens because, well, the slides are evolving as the course proceeds. I would recommend that folks download the latest set of slides uploaded at the end of the lecture for section 'D' for use later on. Of course, I try to ensure earlier sections do not lose out on important things that may have come up later on. One reason for having the blog is to be able to communicate interesting/important issues arising in one section across the entire class. LIke happened in the JMP-ANOVA case in sections A and B, sometimes, it would make sense to actually re-do a portion of the slides in the subsequent lecture.
Chalo, last but not least,
"A HaJaAr HaPpY DiWaLi To YoU AnD FaMiLy!"
Sudhir
Sir,
ReplyDeleteI understand the constraints on time in class to make the presentations. But, I have a suggestion which can help us all. Instead of all groups sitting through the 10th session and only 4-5 groups presenting, would it be possible to have 4-5 groups slotted together within a window and these groups can pick each other. This way some groups which cannot present in the 10th session need not spend more time than those that presented in class. Please consider this request.
Thanks
Vikram
Hi Vikram,
ReplyDeleteI see your point and it is well taken.
However, the presentations during lecture 10 are effectively during class time. During class time students are expected to be in class. So why ask half for the class to be excused from being present during class time?
The evening presentations will be held in an MLT and other groups are welcome to attend if they want to.
Sudhir
Sir,
ReplyDeleteLet me try one last time. I understand we should be present in class during class time, but if we are to present it later I need to make time later as well which the groups who present in class do not have to. Doesn't this sound unfair to those groups which have to present later. Please excuse me if this seems uncalled for. But I think it is important for all of us given that there are many submissions to make over the next week and then the end terms to follow.
Thanks
Vikram
Vikram,
ReplyDeleteThere is one project scope, one survey questionnaire and one analysis dataset and yet, there are likely to a variety of different analyses, different stories, different ideas and different mistakes that will emerge from the way different groups perceive, plan and pursue the project.
Ideally, I'd want all groups to view, question and understand the choices their peers have made regarding what to do and not to do within the common project scope. I perceive tremendous learning for everybody here.
Having said that, attending or not attending class during class time is a choice students make all the time. I do not and will not ask anyone to be present in class for any given thing. Kindly feel free to leave if you group is not in the 5-6 we will randomly draw in the beginning itself. That would be your call and your choice, as always. It has nothing to do with me. However, kindly don't expect me to sanctify it, rationalize it, or otherwise legitimize it by asking folk not to attend class or anything like that.
Yup, my last word on this subject as well.
Thank you and best regards,
Sudhir
Sir is the tutorial happening today??
ReplyDeleteHi Raghavendra,
ReplyDeleteNo.
Sudhir