Grades in my classes are based on competitive projects - where results
can be compared, so it is either execution time or classification
accuracy. Sometimes it is a vote of the panel of judges. I try to make it fun
and in the same time "hands on" where students learn by doing. The
best work is immortalized in the Hall of Fame, so students can refer
to their work in their resumes. WARNING - you may be awarded a funny
title! (like a chief scraper, SQL dynamo). Here is the link to the
data projects and the hall of fame.
Data projects and Student Hall of Fame
This style have been perfected since spring 2010 when I taughtData Mining
-Searching for gold in massive data sets
Cofounder of Connotate, the
leader in web data
extraction and monitoring data in the web. Currently, I serve as a member of the Board of
Directors of Connotate.
Recently Connotate has acquired Fetch.com
