3. Critical Survey (Report)
Each team should choose an available & real world dataset and survey papers that studied that data set
- US Government Data https://www.data.gov/ (you can also apply on UAE Government Data http://opendata.fcsa.gov.ae/ )
- Word net https://wordnet.princeton.edu/wordnet/download/
- Google N-gram https://books.google.com/ngrams
- Flow Cytometry https://flowrepository.org/
An individual needs to survey at least 10 papers. A team of two needs to survey at least 16 papers. Use google scholar and other online resources in order to obtain high-quality papers. It is recommended to use the CORE ranking for journals and conferences (A or B only), or impact factor (1 and above) or number of citations (5 and above).
Deliverables:
A survey, no more than 5000 words, single column, describing briefly and precisely
· Title of the topic (to be surveyed) and the team members (name and ID of each).
· In case of team, division of work: what did each team member do?
· Survey: summarize the different papers, highlighting what analysis was conducted on the data and what patterns were discovered
· the more integrated the survey is, the better (i.e., not simple collection of paper summaries.)
· Proposal: From what you read, what ideas you think are worth pursuing?
4. Critical Survey (Presentation)
30 minutes presentation about the critical survey that is uploaded, as a video, on the blackboard. The presentation should include:
- Brief introduction
- Data set
- Why is it important
- Overview
- Group surveyed papers XXXXXXXXXXinto themes/clusters and briefly highlight them
- Papers
- 1-2 slides for each XXXXXXXXXXpaper
- Main results, analysis & findings
- Conclusion
- What are the main lessons
5. Research Project (report with demo/presentation)
Choose an idea from the previous report to pursue in further detail. It is important to make sure the data you need is available. Analyze your data set and report the results.
Deliverables:
1. a report, no more than 7000 words, single column, describing briefly:
· Title of the topic.
· In case of team, division of work: what did each team member do?
· Methods
o What tools did you use?
o Any preprocessing of the data?
o What measurements/algorithms did you use?
· Results:
o What have you discovered? Be creative in visualizing and try to find interesting patterns.
· Discussion:
o Comments on the results and the whole experience (be scientific and precise, e.g. you may mention some ideas that you investigated but did not turn out to be interesting, etc.).
- A video, uploaded to the blackboard along with the report, summarizing the findings and/or providing a demo.
7. Important Notes
a) More than one team can choose the same topic.
b) All deliverables to be submitted through the blackboard.[1]
c) Acknowledge all assistance on assignments and all references.
d) Use blackboard for questions
8. Late submission
According to the university policy, every day late you lose (-) 2%, up to 5 working days excluding the weekend and holidays. If you are late more than the 5 days you will get zero.
Notice that. It is the student responsibility to make sure that the deliverable satisfies the requirements.
Marking Scheme
The grading will be broken down based on the following criteria:
| Deliverable | Criterion | Max | Actual |
| Survey | Clarity & quality of writing | 15% | |
| Quantity & Quality of surveyed papers | 15% | |
| Originality of proposed ideas | 10% | |
| Presentation | 10% | |
| Total for Survey | 50% |
| Report | difficulty of the problem (amount of work) & originality of the solution (how it differs from related work) | 10% | |
| Overall organization, readability & academic writing style | 20% | |
| Results, Depth of analysis, Critical evaluation of own work (discussion of results & conclusion) | 20% | |
| Total for the report | 50% |
[1] Turnitin is used to detect plagiarism. Plagiarism is a very serious offence that can lead to being expelled from the programme.