News November 5, 2024 The results of the Midterm

Transcript:News November 5, 2024 The results of the Midterm:
News November 5, 2024 The results of the Midterm exam were “reasonable”; however, there were about 7-9 very low scores in the midterm exam; I view all performance in this exam who have scores below 24 points as “poor” There will be a discussion centering on ethics for data science lead by group K on November 7; there will be a similar discussing, focusing on a different subtopic, lead by group N on November 21. Task 4 is due on Monday, November 11 end of the day in MS Teams (no grace period) Task 5 is due on Saturday, November 16 in Kritik; however, some peer reviewing will take place in the window November 17-22. The second course exam is scheduled for Tuesday, November 26, 2:30p; this will be the last activity of this course. We taught the makeup class on Nov. 1 as the class on Tuesday, November 12 has been cancelled. Topic for the remainder of this lecture: Reading and Reviewing Data Mining Papers and Task5. 1 COSC 6335 Fall 2024 Task 5: Reading, Understanding, Summarizing, and Reviewing DM Papers Christoph F. Eick On Reviewing Reviewing has many roles in our society: To help people to make selections To determine which research is most valuable/worth publishing To determine which research gets funded and how to distribute research funds and other resources … Reviewing is also important of your everyday life: To choose the best methods and products To choose what to allocate your resources on To choose entertainment options In order to be successful in your research and professional life you need to be a good reviewer! Challenge: Reviewing requires you to form an opinion about something, and students are usually not often asked about their opinion about something too often… 3 Already covered in Sept. 2024! About Reading Scientific Papers Questions to ask when reading papers What is the field of research of the paper? If the paper is part of a well established field, you should describe the field and its current state. What is the problem area with which the paper is concerned? What problem does the paper solve? Is the problem the authors solve defined clearly in the paper? What is the author's thesis? That is, what is he/she trying to convince you of? Summarize the author's argument. That is, how does the author go about trying to convince you of her thesis? Does