04. Proposal Guidelines

Report Guidelines

Your project submission will be evaluated on the written proposal that is submitted. Additionally, depending on the project you are proposing, other materials such as the data being used will be evaluated. It is expected that the proposal contains enough detail, documentation, analysis, and discussion to adequately reflect the work you intend to complete for the project. Because of this, it is extremely important that the proposal is written in a professional, standardized way, so those who review your project's proposal are able to clearly identify each component of your project in the report. Without a properly written proposal, your project cannot be sufficiently evaluated. A project proposal template is provided for you to understand how a project proposal should be structured. We strongly encourage students to have a proposal that is approximately two to three pages in length.

The Machine Learning Capstone Project proposal should be treated no different than a written research paper for academics. Your goal is to ultimately present the research you've discovered into the respective problem domain you've chosen, and then clearly articulate your intended project to your peers. The narrative found in the project proposal template provides for a "proposal checklist" that will aid you in fully completing a documented proposal. Please make use of this resource!