Project Report

For the final report of the project, you have to submit a single PDF file, without any other code or notebooks, describing the main goals and findings of the project. The project report will be somewhat similar to the homework reports, with an emphasis on analysis and discussion.

The report should be no more than 6 pages. If you want to include more charts/examples, you can include an optional appendix after the first six pages, but this appendix should only contain more charts/examples (not analysis), and also, might be ignored by us while grading (so don't put the crucial stuff there). If you still feel the limit is too short, feel free to use a two-column format with a reasonable font size, something like this Links to an external site., in order to write your report.

The report should address the following (a lot of it overlaps with the project presentation):

  • Preliminaries: Names of the team members, and the project/team name and number.
  • Motivation: What general idea are you focusing on? Why is it important?
  • Problem Definition: What is the exact task description, i.e. think input/output of your work. Use a figure if it would help. What are your metrics of success? 
  • Dataset(s): Description of the dataset. Show statistics as a table (number of words/sentences/documents/labels), and some examples. Did you preprocess the data?
  • Your Solution: What did you do to solve the problem? Depending on your project, this can include the description of the features, description of the classifiers, etc.
  • Results: What were the main results that help you reach a conclusion? Resist the urge to report every number you generated, "more results" is not an impressive thing, but instead, focus on which results are interesting. For example, you don't have to show the parameter tuning plot just because you did it, but definitely include it if it provided a useful insight in your debugging.
  • Analysis and Discussion: Use any of the useful tools you've learned, like showing examples, differences, feature importance, etc. to provide an analysis of your approach. When and why does it work? When and why does it not work? What did you learn by doing the project? If you had to do it again, what would you do differently?
  • Resources Used: A brief list of the tools/resources used, with links. No need for details.

Division of Labor

You do not have to mention who did what in the report. We have a separate assignment (Project Grade Distribution), not to be submitted as a team, where you can report if you strongly feel one of your teammates should get a different grade than others.

Deadline

Both the Report and Project Grade Distribution are due by midnight on June 15, 2018. No extension of this deadline will be granted.