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

[Andreas Mueller]

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.

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.
>