Week 16: Synthesis and final demonstration
How did a choice at one stage shape what you could claim at the end?
Design stage: Synthesis and demonstration. Explain how the four stages depend on one another and what the project changed in your judgment.
Prepare for class
Read: Chapter 12; conclusion. The chapters are in Canvas.
Reading focus: Start with the first section, which restates the book’s argument across the four interconnected stages. Use it to explain how one choice in your project constrained a later one.
Bring a draft of your presentation and one specific example of how a review or a check changed your work.
Weekly time budget
Outside class: 360 minutes (6 clock hours) maximum planned work per student. These allocations include all required preparation and submissions; they are planning estimates, not time logs for grading.
| Work | Planned minutes |
|---|---|
| Reading and discussion preparation | 30 |
| Exercises and project work, including troubleshooting | 150 |
| Writing, documentation, and reflection | 180 |
| Total | 360 |
Finish the artifact and the documentation, rehearse, and outline the final reflection. Carry only bounded corrections and submission tasks into finals week.
How the weekly cap works. If required work will exceed the budget, save your attempt and contact the instructor to adjust scope or arrange support.
From the book
Chapter 12 restates the book’s argument: computational methods as methodology, structured environments for AI-assisted research, four interconnected stages, and ethics as embedded practice. Your finished project is the case you read it against.
Monday, April 26: Presentation rehearsal
12:45–2:00 PM · PV A203
Rehearse in small groups: your question, one decision at each stage, one finding with its uncertainty, what a choice at one stage ruled in or out at the next, and a limit that remains. Give each presenter one question about an alternative method and one about an unresolved limitation.
Check the reasoning: Answer from project evidence, not from intention. Avoid claiming a finding your validity audit or uncertainty view does not support.
Wednesday, April 28: Synthesis and final clinic
12:45–2:00 PM · PV A203
Connect the four stages using Chapter 12: how a decision about data, measurement, or analysis ruled something in or out later. Discuss what the projects show together about using AI in research. Resolve remaining questions about the final submission.
Check the reasoning: Trace one change from a check or a review to a revised artifact, and then to what a reader can now conclude. Use that trace in your final reflection.
Work to carry forward
Finish the artifact, the documentation package, and the ethics review in this week’s budget. Reserve finals week for checked corrections, packaging, the final reflection, and rehearsal.
Due at the start of P539’s assigned final session:
- Milestone 5: Scientific communication (15 points)
- Milestone 6: Final presentation (10 points)
- Final reflection: the whole pipeline (10 points)
Last regular meetings.
Assignments and deliverables · Your project · The book and companion website