The Master Project can be individual or a teamwork project of a maximum of 3 students working on the same subject. Projects will naturally be expected to require an effort proportional to the number of team members (300 hours per student). Students may choose a project from a list of suggested projects (see below) or propose one of their own ideas.

• Form a team of 1-3 students if you want to develop a teamwork project.
• Choose a prioritized list of projects.
• The Master’s Project Coordinator, Laura Igual ([email protected]) will assign you a project, by looking for a (maybe global) maximum of the function that represents your global preferences.
• Discuss the research questions, goals, approach you intend to take, methodology, data needed and time plan with your project supervisor.
• Construct a logical outline for the project. Include analysis steps and expected outcomes.
• For temwork projects, define a clear role for all members of the group. This role will be considered in your personal student assessment.
• Fill in details of the project + role definition in a short document (max 2 pages).
• Hand in this document to your supervisors and start the project development!

The final project delivery must include:

• all code produced in a GitHub (or similar) software repository.
• a project report (see the Report Template directory).
• a high level description of the completed project (jupyter notebook and/or blog entry).

See these examples:

• https://github.com/axelbrando/Mixture-Density-Networks-for-distribution-and-uncertainty-estimation
• http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/133281

The quality of the projects will be graded by using three sources of information:

• The delivered information at the end of the project. We will use a “Project Evaluation Rubric” to assign an individual mark to each member of the project.
• The public presentation of your project. Your presentation should be professional enough to give at a technical conference (e.g. organized approach, prepared slides, a short demo or video if appropriate).
• Peer-evaluation for teamwork projects. Team members will assess other members of the team as well as themselves. Peer assessment provides data that will be used in assigning individual grades for team members.

• Jan. 18: First follow up meeting
• Jan. 22: Deadline for sending your project priorities. Please, fill in this form
• Feb. 1: Assignment of projects & supervisors to student groups.
• Feb. 12: Limit for delivering the project proposal short document to your advisor.
• Feb 13 - Jul. 1: Period of development of your project.
• Jun. 1: Limit for informing if you will present the TFM in July or September.
• Jul. 1 & Set. 2: Limit for final delivery of your project (via Campus Virtual task).
• Jul. TBD & Set. TBD: Presentations.

Project Proposals 2020/2021

• Use the latex report template available in this repository.
• Every student have to submit an individual report, even for a teamwork project. In this last case, the report should have a different title specific for every member of the teamwork project and some parts can be different depending on the role of the author.
• For teamwork projects, the report should contain a final appendix where the contribution of each of the team members should be detailed. Each member will be evaluated based on this information.
• The report should contain:
  • between 45-55 pages for a teamwork project.
  • between 25-35 pages for an individual project.
  • Reports that do not meet these length limits will not be accepted.
• The report should contain a link to the project Github repository.
• Delivery should be only digital by Campus Virtual.

• Here you can find the style guide Interuniversity Style Guide for Writing Institutional Texts in English which aims to facilitate interuniversity communication and improve the quality of the institutional English-language documents we produce for international readers.

• For the basic structure of your GitHub you can use Cookiecutter
• You can find Notebook examples here.
• For non-publicable projects: use private Bitbucket repositories.

• Presentations will be 20 minutes for individual projects, 30 minutes for projects of 2 students and 40 minutes for projects of 3 students, followed by 10 minuts of quetsions.