[scikit-learn] Topic for thesis work on scikit learn

[Gaurav Dhingra]

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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