Deliverable 3: Final Project Report

Due  Apr 13 by 11:59pm             Points  30

Deliverable 3 (Report Manuscript):

Submit completed report manuscript, appending the background, results, discussion, and conclusion sections as described below. Completed report should not exceed 2000 words. There will be a penalty for exceeding the word limit. Graphs, tables, images and code are not counted towards the word limit.

Sections content description:

Intro/Background: Here is it important to describe the context of your problem, previous studies…then state your aim/motivation. Your aim could be deductive, whereby you have a hypothesis which you would like to test using one of the data mining methods which we will be covering during the span of the course. You may also have an inductive aim, whereby you will use one of the covered methods to induce new hypotheses based on novel patterns identified by the algorithm. (Note: If you would like to use a method which is not covered in this course, please consult with your instructor first).

Methods: In this section you will describe the preprocessing steps required to convert your data to the desired format and then

describe the algorithm which you used, what are the algorithmic steps? Discuss the efficiency of the algorithm, how computationally expensive is it both in terms of space and time complexity?

Results: State your results, your results will be listed in tables in the appendix, you will state the most important results in this section.

Discussion: Discuss your findings by interpreting the results, comparing your results to those of other studies (if applicable), and identifying any limitations/weaknesses associated with your project.

Conclusion: Restate what your mining accomplished and what knowledge it added if any, then discuss what future work can be done to build on your work.