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Project Report Specifics
Project Report Specifics The written report should communicate the findings of your project
in 8 pages or less (not including figures, tables or bibliography).
Use 1" margins and a 12 point Arial font. You do not have to use all 8 pages.
The report should be structured like a paper in a scientific journal and contain the following sections:
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Introduction - Frame the problem - describe its significance, cite existing relevant work, especially any work that inspired your (primary) approach.
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Methods - A concise description of your primary methods, any data normalization procedures, software tools utilized etc. Mention your secondary method as well (not a lot of detail required here).
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Validation Plan - Describe how you assessed the performance of models and tuned parameters.
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Results - Describe the 3-4 main points from your experiments that you want to emphasize. Put each in a subsection with a descriptive title.
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Discussion - Describe your motivation for choosing your primary approach. Interpret your experimental results. Why do you think that one approach/model perform better than another? Were your motivations for choosing your primary method justified?
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Bibliography - format in any way you see fit - insert citations throughout the introduction and methods.
A couple other points:
-Indicate who wrote each section - you can insert your name in parentheses by subsection for example, or at the beginning of a paragraph.
-Submit an electronic archive of your code (.tgz, .zip or other) along with a list of dependencies and instructions for building/compilation (if required).
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