David Newman, UC Irvine Progress Report 1 1

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Project Progress Report 1 Due Tues Oct 30

• Written Progress Report
• Expect at least 3 pages (should be typed not
  handwritten)
• Hand in written document in class on Tues Oct 30
• Also submit by email 1 Powerpoint or PDF slide
• 1 slide that describes your project
• Should contain
• Your name (top right corner)
• Clear description of the main task
• Some visual graphic of data relevant to your task
• 1 bullet or 2 on what methods you plan to use
• Preliminary results or results of exploratory
  data analysis
• Make it graphical (use text sparingly)
• Email as an attachment no later 12 noon Tues Oct
  30
• subject line cs277 yourname_20071030.ppt

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List of Sections for your Progress Report

• Clear description of task (reuse original
  proposal if needed)
• Discussion of relevant literature
• Discuss prior published/related work (if it
  exists)
• Preliminary data evaluation
• Exploratory data analysis relevant to your task
• Include as many of plots/graphs as you think are
  useful/relevant
• Preliminary algorithm work
• Summary of your progress on algorithm
  implementation so far
• If you are not at this point yet, say so
• Relevant information about other code/algorithms
  you have downloaded, some preliminary testing on,
  etc.
• Difficulties encountered so far
• Plans for the remainder of the quarter
• Algorithm implementation
• Experimental methods