One thing that stood out: aiming to outperform a previous analysis is a very
strong claim - I would reorient the goal to focus more on evaluating the
different machine-learning methods rather than focus on outperforming the
original analysis.
Scope of the project seems very large - Need to explicitly express what they
are trying to accomplish with machine learning (supervised learning
[classification / prediction], unsupervised). "Machine learning the hell out of"
the data is not a useful statement - different machine learning approaches are
designed to accomplish different things. Need to spend more time explicitly
formulating the problem to be solved.
Computer performance was ID'ed as a problem - this surprises me, may want to
start with subsets of data for exploratory analysis and scale up as necessary.
Presentation didn't contain any preliminary analysis results - really need to
get moving here. Perhaps start with the analysis from class.
You still have a lot of work to do, but there is still time. However, you will
need to start focusing and making consistent progress. If you continue waiting
to start, I am worried you won't have enough time to make serious progress.
Please take advantage of our office hours.
One thing that stood out: aiming to outperform a previous analysis is a very strong claim - I would reorient the goal to focus more on evaluating the different machine-learning methods rather than focus on outperforming the original analysis.
Scope of the project seems very large - Need to explicitly express what they are trying to accomplish with machine learning (supervised learning [classification / prediction], unsupervised). "Machine learning the hell out of" the data is not a useful statement - different machine learning approaches are designed to accomplish different things. Need to spend more time explicitly formulating the problem to be solved.
Computer performance was ID'ed as a problem - this surprises me, may want to start with subsets of data for exploratory analysis and scale up as necessary.
Presentation didn't contain any preliminary analysis results - really need to get moving here. Perhaps start with the analysis from class.
You still have a lot of work to do, but there is still time. However, you will need to start focusing and making consistent progress. If you continue waiting to start, I am worried you won't have enough time to make serious progress. Please take advantage of our office hours.