Each student is required to finish a course project by the end of the semester. The course project counts 60% of your total grade. The grading of your project consists of two components:

• The project proposal (i.e., no more than 6 pages, the references are not included) and the proposal presentation count 20% of your total grade;
• The project deliverables (incl. code, project paper (i.e., no more than 10 pages, the references are not included)) and the final project presentation count 40% of your total grade.

Milestone 1: decide on a project idea
• 10/01 Wednesday:

Ideas, competitions, and datasets:

• Machine Learning Experiences in Artificial Intelligence: Sample Projects
• kaggle
• reddit.com/r/datasets

Intersting projects:

• You Are What You Tweet: Analyzing Twitter for Public Health
• Probabilistic Topic Models
• How I built a neural network controlled self-driving (RC) car!
• Social Networks in Shakespeare
• Adverse Event Reporting
• Drug data reveal sneaky side effects
• LDA on a Social Graph
• Louvain method: Finding communities in large networks
• A Tool Chain for Plotting Twitter Archive Retweet Graphs – Py, R, Gephi
• Complex brain networks: graph theoretical analysis of structural and functional systems
• Building High-level Features Using Large Scale Unsupervised Learning