An important aspect of both your written and oral reports is the "story-telling" aspect. Try to tell the story of what experiments you ran and why, how each experiment shed lights on what experiment(s) to run next, and what you learned with them.
Experiments' Guidelines
In your written report, describe the dataset in terms of the attributes
present in the data, the number of instances, missing values, and
other relevant characteristics.
[Parts 1-3 combined: 10 points]
[Parts 4-5 combined: 10 points for presention of results and
30 points for in-depth discussion of results]
[10 points for sufficient and coherent set of experiments]
Guidelines for Oral Reports and Slides
We will discuss the results of each project in class.
Your oral report should summarize the most important parts of
your written report and should elaborate only on the most significant
or more unique parts of your work.
Each group will have 5 minutes to present their project in class.
Given the time constraint, your presentation should consist of 3-4 slides
(and no more!). Try to summarize results using tables when appropriate.
Try to spend about 1 minutes describing each of the two individual
parts of of the project, your and your partner's (1 slide each),
for a total of 3 minutes.
Spend the remaining 3 minutes (2 slides) describing the group part
of the project.
Be prepared and use your presentation time wisely!
Submission and Due Dates
containing your slides for your (group's) oral report.
n is the project number.
This file should be either a PDF file (ext=pdf)
or a PowerPoint file (ext=ppt).
Please use only lower case letters in the name file.
For instance, the file with my slides for Project 1
would be named ruiz_proj1_slides.ppt
(if I worked on the project alone) or
ruiz_smith_proj1_slides.ppt
(if I worked on the project in a group with Joe Smith).
Please sort the lastnames in alphabetical order.
by the beginning of class the day that the project is due.
Grading Criteria
The project grade will be distributed as follows:
Given that the written and the oral reports contain individual (as well
as group) parts, it is likely that each member of the group will receive a
different grade.
A detailed distribution of the total points appears in the project
description above. Extra points will be given to exceptional quality work.