Peer review

Constructively reviewing data analysis projects

In this assignment, you will get to practice peer review of a data analysis project by reviewing a data analysis project created by your classmates. You will be writing your review in an issue in your assigned repository. You will be evaluated on the thoughtfullness and usefullness of your feedback in the review.

• Peer review repository: https://github.com/DSCI-310-2024/data-analysis-review-2024
• Your review assignments are posted on Piazza: https://piazza.com/class/lr1bsx4w2te58d/post/187

Submission instructions

You will submit a PDF to Gradescope for this peer review that includes:

1. your GitHub.com username
2. the URL of to the issue containing your peer review (ideally linked to your post)

Peer review instructions

• Using the review checklist linked to below, review the data analysis project assigned to you and write your comprehensive review.
  • data analysis checklist
• Other than checking the boxes in the template, we ask you to give at least 3 pieces of constructive feedback in the Review Comments section. It is OK to have some overlap with the other people reviewing the data analysis project, but there should be at least 2 points of constructive feedback unique to each review.

The sooner you start your review, the less likely you will have a non-unique review. We will be grading in the issue order. That is, the longer you wait to start, the more likely the “easy” constructive feedback comments will be reported.

Some guidance when you write your reviews

• Be concrete and specific: support your claims with evidence: provide an example or point to specific things when you write comments.

• Be empathetic: when you write feedback, try to put yourself at the receiving end and think about what feedback would have been useful for you.

• Be Constructive: Do not use evaluative or judgmental language; instead be constructive and help them build on their strengths.

• Tone: Don’t be mean. A good test to determine whether you are being mean or not is putting yourself or a close friend at the receiving end or imagining whether you can say it to them in a face-to-face conversation.

Rubric

This assignment will be graded on the quality of your peer review as follows:

Grade	Description
100%	The review check boxes were completed and three pieces of constructive feedback was given in the “Review Comments” section. Two or more of these were unique.
75%	The review check boxes were completed and three pieces of constructive feedback was given in the “Review Comments” section. Only one of these were unique.
50%	The review check boxes were completed and constructive feedback was given in the “Review Comments” section. However, none of these were unique.
25%	Only the review check boxes were completed. No constructive feedback was given in the “Review Comments” section.
0%	The review was not attempted.