Project information

Due date: Dec. 16 at 5pm (electronically, as PDF file, by e-mail to Professor Sontag)
Instructions for final project writeup

Suggested data sets (or better: find your own!):

• Kaggle
• Identify patients diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes (see interview with winners). Exploratory data.
  
• Score essays
  
• Face recognition, collaborative filtering, web ranking (see bottom, under "Projects")
• See here for more collaborative filtering data
  
• 20 Newsgroups
• Blogs (with spam labels)
  
• Enron e-mail data set (see also here)
• Congress voting records
• Twitter, Slashdot, etc.
• Large network datasets
  
• NYTimes news articles
  

Useful links:

• Python for data scientists
• scikit.learn: Python machine learning modules (very good!)
  
• SVMlight software (also very good)
  
• Matlab/Octave resources (see bottom of page)
• Examples of how to write up your project