Instructions for printing your poster at the Media Center are available on their website. Your poster should be 48x35 inches (landscape or portrait orientation is fine).

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A poster should typically include information such as:

  1. Title
  2. Group members
  3. Statement of question or purpose
  4. Background and preparation
    • If analyzing an existing dataset, include a description of your data here
    • If conducting a research study, provide motivation for why your question is important
    • If running an original study or experiment, include any prior work and examples of data you collected
  5. Methodology
    • Existing dataset: overview of statisitcal methods you tried/used
    • Research study: which statistical methods did your sources use? How will you evaluate the validity of the studies you read?
    • Original survey/experiment: How did you try to take a random sample? How did you collect your sample? How did you decide when you had enough data points?
  6. Results and Conclusions
    • Data Analysis: Your main graphs/results that you’d like to highlight. This should constitute the bulk your poster.
    • Research study: This is where you should synthesize your conclusions. This section will likely take up less physical space for you.
    • Original Survey/Experiment: Your main graphs/results that you’d like to highlight. This might take up less space than data analysis posters, but you should still dedicate substantial space.
  7. Discussion, critique, and future work
    • What did you learn?
    • What went wrong, and how could you improve it?
    • Were there any additional analyses that you would have liked to carry out had you had more time?

There are many poster templates available online - if you find one you like better than the examples below, feel free to use it!

Resources:

  1. Collin Purrington’s website has a variety of templates
  2. More templates
  3. Some directions on setting up a poster in google slides