Discussion Outline

Requirements

Although you likely will not have final results at this time, you should start outlining your discussion/results. Create a new page by duplicating your previous draft and add a “discussion” section to your report web-page.

  • Revise your current text.
  • Add an outline of your discussion/results section.
    • Five to ten sentence outline
    • Think about:
      • what data you will present,
      • how you will interpret/evaluate your data,
      • how your work compare to others, and
      • how will you prove your point (support your claims).

You can also include explanations of important concepts that you have learned/implemented. Feel free to do this in a tutorial style.

For projects that are focused on an application or ethics discussion, you can tweak your discussion outline to match your topic.

Here is an example (and I’ve added comments in parentheses that would not be part of the submission):

“We created our own dataset and trained four types of neural networks. (You can fill in the exact types of networks later).”

“We implemented two types of networks from scratch, and grabbed two others from GitHub. (You’ll provide links.)”

“Our comparison focuses on the final accuracy of each NN type. (Add some details about why accuracy is a useful metric here.)”

“You can see in the following loss and accuracy figures that our NN are learning, even if the final results are not the best. (Add some details about how you can tell you’re learning and not, for example, overfitting.)”

“Compared with existing studies, our results were quite a bit worse. (Later you’ll add some comments about why this is.)”

“In the future, we would spend more timing training two types of NN instead of spreading our focus across four different types. (Later you’ll add the”why?“.)”

You will submit a link to your web-page on gradescope.

All of the information you provide is tentative, and I expect many groups to change their minds as projects evolve.

You can always return to milestone 5 for more information on what goes into a technical report.