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Summary of Lexical Phase (5%)
Define problem
- Background
- Review of similar work (essay form, not point form notes)
- Needs Analysis
- Problem Statement
Define Boundaries
- Spatial extent (include base maps such as road maps or topographic
maps with the study area extent outlined on the maps; explain your choice)
- Temporal extent (specify clearly the extent in time over which
your analysis applies and why)
- Major assumptions (state major assumptions regarding the entities
and their relationships at a conceptual level (e.g. we assumed all liquor
stores had the same sales capacity) but not at a physical data model
level (e.g. do not say we assumed all liquor stores could be mapped
as point features)
Define Entities
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A list of entities chosen together with an explanation of why they were
chosen; references to data dictionaries of data layers or data tables
holding information regarding these entities (e.g. entity: liquor store
catchment ; entity: liquor store). It is possible you will have more
than one data dictionary describing different aspects of an entity (e.g.
a table describing attribute data for an entity and a coverage of spatial
features describing spatial coverage of the entities).
- Put the completed data dictionaries in an appendix. Make sure
you include data dictionaries for data tables and not just for spatial
data layers (e.g. if you have a table of liquor store capacity indexed
by liquor store you should document it with a data dictionary).
Summary of Parsing Phase (5%)
Conceptual data model
- Include conceptual model flow chart (lay it out clearly)
- Written description of conceptual model flow (describe main concepts
that cannot be easily shown in a flow chart format).
Defining relationships between groups of entities
- Include figures identifying entities and their attributes and
how they relate to the problem; check the conceptual
model components of the SETO project for an example.
- Document linkages between attribute tables and entities (e.g.
make a table in your report listing each data table and each entity
coverage that was joined/linked, identifying the field [database key]
in each table used for linking and provide a brief description of what
the join/link was used for).
Physical data model
- Clearly specify the coordinate system used during processing
steps (this information should also be in the data dictionaries but
is useful for someone looking at your resulting maps).
- Explain choices for raster vs. vector and spatial resolution
of raster data or locational accuracy/aggregation level of vector data
(e.g. why did you choose census tracts vs. census enumeration areas?
What sort of spatial intervals did you specify for a cost surface map
based on buffering and why?)
Modeling Phase (10%)
Data Flow
- Provide
a flow chart and a brief written explanation of the steps performed
(you can use your interim report description of the steps).
- Anything
which is new, modified, or insufficiently covered (i.e. you were asked
for more details) in the interim report should be especially well explained
here, with detailed explanations and/or figures, perhaps showing printouts
of maps used in the intermediate data processing steps
Analysis Phase (20%)
Present modeling results
- Provide maps, charts, tables or graphs showing modeling results
You should put important maps, graphs and tables into the body of the report
and the less important (e.g. intermediate steps) into an appendix
- Provide written descriptions of the results
Validate modeling results
- Quantitatively or qualitatively discuss the validity of the modeling
results
- Include a discussion regarding the impact of the assumptions
on the usefulness of the results
Conclusions & Recommendations
- Explain how the results address the problem statement
- Explain what should be done to improve the results
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