Project Presentations

Please prepare a Powerpoint presentation which summarizes your group's project and outcomes so far. Use the following format. You should end up with 6-10 slides + title.

0. Please identify your team (team name and member names) on a title slide. When you present, be sure to introduce yourselves.

1. (1-2slides) Problem statement: What problem you are trying to solve. Should include quality metrics you use to measure performance/accuracy. Should *not* describe the algorithm or method you're using to solve the problem.

2. (2) Methods you explored or plan to explore. Will typically include data preparation/featurization, and then the learning algorithms you tried, and possibly visualization or interaction to explore the results.

3. (1-2 slides) The tools you used, and a rationale for their use. Can cover data preparation, learning, visualization, performance measurement etc.

4. (1-2 slides) Results (may be preliminary). Any results you have to report so far. May also be a report of unexpected challenges.

5. (1-2 slides) Lessons learned and/or plans to mitigate challenges.

CS2914-16 students: For MEng projects, you should have an extra slide comparing your results with a baseline model. The baseline model can be e.g. Logistic regression or naive Bayes for a classification task, or (dense) SVD for a matrix factorization task etc. You should be able to show a significant gain over the baseline.

Mechanics

Plan to present for 6 minutes. There should be some time for questions in the change-over between groups.

When you're done presenting, disconnect your machine so the next group can present, but stay at the front of the room to answer questions.

When presenting make sure you have your presentation on a (charged) laptop and also on a backup machine.

Check that your video output works, and that you know how to use it.

Make sure you know how to manage multiple screens (or to disable that feature) since most laptops map the projector to a different screen by default.

Check that your presentation renders correctly on the target machine. Editing the presentation on windows for presentation on a Mac usually breaks something. pdf will generally render the same on both platforms.

Someone always forgets to do one of the above and misses their presentation slot. Make sure its not your group.

Attendance is compulsory at both presentation sessions.

Submission

Please submit your presentation (the powerpoint or similar file) Here.

Schedule

Monday 11/30

Data Daddies
DSS
Livejournal Recommendations
PANDAS
SuperGroup
Twitter
Wranglers
Yelpadvisor
Yelp Analytics
Yelp and Chill
Yelp Explorers

Wednesday 12/2

ASAP mob
Bloodlust Honeybee
Brainiacs
group id
Livejournal Social Influence

Purple Paraguayans
r/seniorits
SIRENS
SuperClass
Team One
Y4