[scikit-learn] Topic for thesis work on scikit learn
Gaurav Dhingra
gauravdhingra.gxyd at gmail.com
Sun Dec 31 05:50:31 EST 2017
Sorry Andreas, I didn't intend to send last mail to you. I've sent a
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On Sunday 31 December 2017 04:18 PM, Gaurav Dhingra wrote:
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> I think I'll get access to a local mentor from my college, so I think
> I rule that issue out, though for technicalities still I would /like/
> to be more dependent on feedback from the scikit-learn community,
> since my aim wouldn't be to make something for my own use but rather
> something that would be more useful for the scikit-learn community, so
> that it eventually gets merged into master.
>
> I'm currently looking for topic that I can take up, I tried looking
> into scikit-learn wiki but it doesn't mention for what I'm looking for
> (no topic is mentioned). Do you have some topic in mind that could be
> useful for addition to scikit-learn? Even if you could direct me to
> appropriate links I would be happy to look into those.
>
>
> On Wednesday 01 November 2017 01:43 AM, Andreas Mueller wrote:
>> Hi Gaurav.
>>
>> Do you have a local mentor? I think having a mentor that can guide
>> you during a thesis is very important.
>> You could get some feedback from the community for a contribution,
>> but that can be slow,
>> and is entirely on volunteer basis, so there is no guarantee that
>> you'll get the necessary feedback in time
>> to finish your thesis.
>>
>> Mentoring a thesis - in particular without knowing you - is a serious
>> commitment, so I'm not sure someone
>> from inside the project will want to do this. I saw you already made
>> a contribution in
>> https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pull/10005
>> but that's a very different scope than doing what I expect would be
>> several month of work.
>>
>
>
> Though in this regard I've made a few more contributions, here is the
> link https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/pulls/gxyd, though I
> know none of them is a big contribution. If you think I should work on
> a big enough PR, can you please suggest me some issue in that regard?
>
> Thanks
>
>> Best,
>> Andy
>>
>> On 10/31/2017 03:31 PM, Gaurav Dhingra wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I am a final year (5th year) undergraduate Applied Mathematics
>>> student in India. I am thinking of doing my final year thesis by
>>> doing some work (coding part) on scikit learn, so I was thinking if
>>> anyone could tell me if there are available topics (not necessarily
>>> names of those topics) that I could work on being an undergraduate
>>> student? I would want to expand upon this in December when my exams
>>> will be over. But in the mean time would want to take a step in that
>>> direction by just knowing if there will be available topics that I
>>> could work on.
>>>
>>> It could be the case that available topics are not so easy for an
>>> undergraduate, still in that case I would like to do some research
>>> on the topics first.
>>>
>>
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