Task (week 45): Submit the nearly finished report

Recommended content

The "nearly finished report" is a preliminary version of the DAT390 report. Building on the literature review, you are additionally expected to describe the methodology for your own research effort. The methodology must be validated or demonstrated, e.g., through preliminary results or a feasibility study. The report should roughly be like a conference paper in data science related fields, where it is common practice to publish work with preliminary results or feasibility studies as contributions to conference proceedings.

Since this is a draft version of the complete report, please do include the analysis of the state of the art again, since you will need to do that in the final version as well.

Recommended format

You can follow any form and style as long as it is in line common established practices in the relevant academic fields. As before, it is recommended to use the LaTeX template for theses issued by the REALTEK Departments of Physics and Data Science or, alternatively, the LaTeX article class with 11pt font size in A4 paper format.

The specifications for the "nearly finished report" are the same as for the final report:

• LaTeX generated PDF document, font size 11 pt. minimum, length limit 12 pages maximum, not counting the title page, the reference list, any appendices, and any indices including lists of tables or figures (neither of these are required, but neither are they forbidden).
• The report should be clearly structured, using sections (and subsections where appropriate); you are not tied to any particular structure or convention for naming these sections.
• Appendices can be used for long tables, lists of terms or items, and other indices or catalogues. They may contain minor amounts of text, such as table captions or brief explanations of the elements that are included. Only use one or multiple appendices if that is necessary to avoid going over the 12-page limit.

Submission

• Submit through Canvas by the end of 8th November 2024.
• Also send your literature review directly to your peer reviewer to receive additional feedback (and give feedback to them) by 22nd November 2024. You can find the groups for peer review on Canavas.

The "nearly finished report" will not be graded and does not contribute to your grade in DAT390, which is determined from the final report only. (See the list of criteria.) You will receive feedback on the following aspects of your work:

• Introduction and theory
• Methods and working practice
• Results and discussion
• Form and academic writing

If you use the LaTeX template for theses in Data Science and Physics, please edit line 99 in the file NMBU.cls to say "DAT390 Report" instead of "Master's Thesis" and, where the template main.tex file contains \credits{30}, write \credits{5}.

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