05 | First team presentation

Objectives

In an ~8-minute-long presentation¹ your team will:

• Provide some background on members’ expertise.
• Introduce us to 1 to 3 topics or questions that you would like to examine using AI/ML. These topics can be very broad (e.g., “we would like to explore volcanic activity”) to very specific (e.g., “we are interested in detecting craters on the moon”).
• Tell us why these topics are interesting to you. Then, explain why they are important to others (e.g., scientists, community members, humanity at large).
• Identify several sources of data that may be of use to your team. Provide some basic metadata.
• Produce preliminary characterizations or visualizations of the data.

Evaluation

The instructors will evaluate you on (in order of importance):

• Completeness: Did you fulfill all of the objectives?
• Content quality: Are your (i.) topics/questions, (ii.) data sources, and (iii.) data characterization(s) well-developed and of high quality?
• Presentation: Is your presentation compelling (i.e., both from a narrative and visual standpoint), clear, and concise?
• Timing: Did you follow the time limits?

Deadline

We will hear from each team during class on Friday, January 23.