Meeting(3/11/17)

Topics Discussed

Software Engineering Aspect of Project

Need to have software engineering aspect of project. Potential ideas to be explored:

• Requirements engineering
• Unit Testing
• Planning - Gant Chart

Report Structure

Potential page limits for individual sections were discussed:

• Introduction: 2
• Lit Review: 10
• Problem Analysis: 5
• Design and Implementation: 10
• Results and Evaluation: 10
• Conclusion: 3

Neural Network

Initial experiments with a simple architecture need to be conducted. Experimentation workflow should be established in order to enable fast reliable prototyping. Unit tests can be used to ensure reliability of experiments. Statistical tests will be used to compare the performance of different architectures (ANOVA). 

Tasks Completed

• Learn about stationarity, trends and seasonality.
• Analyse data - perform simple regression, figure out if it's stationary or not, identify trends and seasonality.
• Write up analysis.
• Read Using R for Time Series Analysis 
• Figure out correct formatting for project report (fonts, margins etc.).

Tasks for Next Week

• Perform experiments with simple NN
• Establish experimentation workflow
• Write up experiments.
• Read deep learning book on RNNs.
• Read more papers.
• Write up literature review outline in Latex and further break it down into smaller topics.
• Figure out correct formatting for project report (fonts, margins etc.) and modify document accordingly.