Visualization for Machine Learning
## Acknowledgement This presentation is heavily influenced and borrows directly from Prof. Christopher Manning’s Stanford cs224n project discussion. ## The Final Project You either: * Do the **default** project (more on this later) * Propose your own final project, which we must approve - For this, you will need a mentor (TA/prof/postdoc/PhD) You can work in teams 1-3. Teams are encouraged. Obviously, more is expected from a team than an individual. ## Custom Final Projects * You will need to talk to me or one of the following people about approval for a custom project: - Erin McGowan - Vitoria Guardiero - Guande Wu - Joao Rulff - Parikshit Solunke * If you intend to do one, please reach out immediately. ## Why Choose the Default Final Project (DFP) * If you have limited experience with research, don’t have a clear idea of what you want to do, or need guidance and a goal… Then do the default final project! * Considerations: - The final project will give you more guidance, scaffolding, and clear goals to aim at - The path of success is not to do something that looks weak compared to what you could have done with the DFP ## Why do Custom Final Project (CFP)? * If you - Have some research project that you’re very excited about, which involves the class topics - You want to try something on your own - You want to see more of the process of defining your own research goal, finding data and tools, etc * Then - Do the custom project ## Gamesmanship * DFP are a more guided option, but it’s not that they’re less work * DFP are also open-ended projects where you can explore different approaches and your own creativity. * There are great DFP and great CFP… and weak DFP and CFP. * We will be giving a Best Project Award for each type of project (assuming quantify and quality of entries) ## Project Proposal * Find a relevant (key) research paper for your topic - For DFP, those are provided * Write a summary of that research paper and what you took away from it as key ideas that you hope to use * Write what you plan to work on, and how you can innovate in your final project * Describe as needed, in particular for CFP. - Project plan, relevant existing literature, data that you will use, how you will evaluate your work ## Project Proposal * Skill: How to think critically about a research paper - What were the main novel contributions? - Is the work general and reusable or a special case? - Are there flaws or neat details in that they did? - How does it fit with other papers on similar topics? - Does it provoke good questions on further or different things to try? ## Project Proposal * How to do a good job on your project plan? - You need to have an overall sensible idea - But most project plans are lacking in nuts-and-bolts: * Do you have your data? Can you collect it quickly? * Do you have a realistic evaluation plan? Is it convincing? * Do you have appropriate baselines? ## Project Writeup * Writeup quality is very important to your grade!  ## Sample Project  ## Sample Project  ## Sample Project  ## Plan To Use It in Your Portfolio  ## Plan To Use It in Your Portfolio * https://github.com/VIDA-NYU/pycalibrate * https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.13770.pdf
