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title: MSc Data Science Block 3 Deliverables Q&A 2021/22
tags: [CSC8634, Thesis, Project, CSC8635, Meeting]

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MSc Data Science Block 3 Deliverables Q&A 2021/22
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###### tags: `Thesis` `Meeting` `Project` `CSC8634` `CSC8635`

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- **Location:** Zoom
- **Date:** Monday 10 January, 2022 10:00 AM
- **Agenda**
1. Welcome `5min`
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2. Breakout Groups `10-15min`
    > [name=Everyone]
3. Feeding Back and Q&A  `40min`
	> [name=Everyone]
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**Please note:** the Zoom session will be recorded and made available on Canvas following the session, alongside an anonymised version of this HackMD document. 
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# Session Aims
The aim of this session is to discuss the deliverables for your Block 3 modules (CSC8634 and CSC8635), and answer any questions you have about the process.



# Questions

* :+1: Should we be reading in data locally to help with assessment or can we connect directly to a url?
* Exporting a jupyter notebook to pdf directly - the format is kind of clunky. :+1: Is the best way to export to html and then edit in word etc, or do you suggest other way?
* :+1: Do you need to reference code if you borrow some from Kaggle?
* :+1:  How many models are you expecting us to compare? :+1:
*  Julia Silge's videos are great - are you expecting the project to follow the format of her, say, hotels video? That seemed a good way to cover all bases
* I have a question on the format of the report, the assignment instructions say to include all source code. My Python markdown would be REALLY long if I included all my work in one notebook. Can I include separate notebooks as Appendices?
* :+1: Once finished, should we make our github repositories 'public'?
* Working out best models to use for our line of enquiry - is this based on what we're looking into i.e. whether it's images etc?
* Are we meant to be doing image recognition stuff or basing it off CSV files? (i.e. working with the folders of images or the CSVs only?)
* Should the final report be a markdown file as well or is this expected to be more of a formal single document?

* :+1: Do we need to submit the git log file?
    * Yes please :)
* :+1: Is there something similar as project template but for python?
    * CookieCutter; the link is available in the Q&A on Canvas.
* what exactly the requirement in written report is?
* :+1: How do we follow the project template in jupyter notebook and in google colab?
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* :+1:  I am unable to access Cluster B data for Facebook traffic. Will it be okay to proceed without it? Also, do I have to work on each data set separately like Cluster A and Cluster C or should I combine them?
* if we are using some pretrained models then it might not be considered as novel approach.  So as per the outline of abstract it is written we need to have something novel. what should be done in that case (particularly for cnn).
* I am using the skin cancer data set and was trying to load the images in pycharm, but I could not load all of them because the size was too big. Can I do something about that?
* I have seen in kaggle people balancing imbalanced data. Is this something that we should do, if we are working with imbalanced data? 
* Is there any word limit for the report?
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* I'm confused about generally whats needed, is this understanding correct:
* For the EDA- use Jupyter notebook to perform EDA, then in the same Jupyter notebook file also have text blocks which discuss what the results show- so in total ONE FILE.
* Main Learning file- again, a Jupyter notebook which I’ll have all my tidied up code and also text blocks discussing results/what I’ve done, including the results of code that I’ve tested different models- in total ONE FILE.
* Main report- a Word document (saved as PDF), answering the questions specified in the project description, but written almost like a paper, discussing what I did and the results and such.
* Abstract/main figures - Another Word document (saved as a PDF), including the Abstract and 2 chosen annotated figures. 



* I didnt see a page limit in the project outline- but is it 6 pages (as stated today) for the Word main report?




## General Q&A
Please feel very welcome to enter any questions here. Add a :+1: if you would also be interested in this question.

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* :+1: is there any benchmsrk of accuracy that we need to achieve?

if we are doing project in python what all things need to be submitted?
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