GCI World 2026 April
Final Assignment Tutorial
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Agenda
• What is Final Assignment?
• How to Get Started
• How to Submit
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(Recap) Course Completion Requirements
You will be evaluated on the following assignments:
Total Completed Honors Outstanding
Attendance
Surveys 14 7+ 7+
Homework 24 (=8 HW) 14+ 14+
points
*3 points max,
points points Selected
2 points if late
Students
Final (based on
Assignment 1 submit TOP 10% overall scores)
You need to submit the final assignment to AND
complete the GCI course.
Competition 1 (optional) TOP 20%
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What is Final Assignment?
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About Final Assignment
Your task is to create a business proposal based on the given data. From
data and market analysis, you need to identify the client’s business problem
and present a solution.
You will need to do market analysis, exploratory data analysis, building machine
learning models, and business proposal.
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How to Get Started
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1. Download the materials
Download the “Final Assignment” folder from the class materials
Download the “final assignment” folder to your local PC.
It should download as a ZIP file.
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2. Upload the dataset to your Google Drive
Unzip the downloaded ZIP file.
Then, upload the “Final Assignment” folder to your MyDrive.
(It can be anywhere in your MyDrive, but you will need to adjust the PATH
accordingly later)
Upload the “Final
Assignment” folder from
your local PC
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3. Create a Colab notebook
Inside the folder where the data you uploaded is, create a new Colab notebook
Click the “New” on the top
left of Google Drive, then
go to More -> Google
Colaboratory
If you can’t find Google
Colaboratory, find from
“Connect more apps”
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4. Happy Coding!
Start writing codes!
Some hints:
- Import libraries
- Mount Google Drive (see competition tutorial)
- Load dataset (see competition tutorial)
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How to Submit
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1. Select the assignment
Login to Omnicampus and select the assignment.
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2. Attach the files (make sure to rename the files)
Title
List of references
(one reference per row)
Attach your Jupyter notebook
*rename the file name to [omnicampus name].ipynb
Attach your slides
*rename the file name to [omnicampus name].pdf
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3. Click the green button to submit
Click the green button to submit
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Can I resubmit my work?
A. Yes, you can submit as many times as you want if it is before the deadline.
Q. Can I use any generative AI?
A. You may, but be sure to include the chat history URL in the list of references.
Q. What do I need to submit?
A. Slides (up to 15 pages, PDF format), Jupyter notebook (or python code), and
list of references.
Q. Are late submissions accepted?
A. No.
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Final Assignment Workflow
Repeat the process
Understand the Create a Deepen your Create your Verify your
background hypothesis hypothesis proposal proposal
Data Engineering
EDA EDA
Data Preparation
Approach
・Focus on your
・Understand the meaning hypothesis and conduct Verification
of each feature further data analysis
・Identify the target ・Create new features if Create your
・Evaluate your
variable Create Your needed
proposal proposal’s effectiveness
Hypothesis from results of your
・List possible proposals predictive model or data
・Identify the problem based on your findings analysis
from EDA and survey ・Identify what elements
Understand the Identify the would be affected to
results ・Set metric(s) to evaluate
background of the bottleneck
Business mindset
the proposals evaluate your proposal
market ・Pick the proposal that is
・Identify the workflow most effective
and stakeholders related
・What kind of business
to your hypothesis to find
does the client do?
a solution to the problem
・What do they focus on?
・What are the trends? you identified
What are some common ・Survey existing
problems? solutions
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