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In this blog post, it will be discussed the possible data samples for possible final projects. First of all, I hardly was able to decide what to do in master thesis project, till yesterday. I was thinking a few possible projects and did research on these. Before writing anything related main topic of today's blog, I never thought that, choosing topic for final project would be that hard, namely time consuming. I researched about a few different topics but will point out 2 most interesting ones.

First topic is about Plant Disease Detection. I researched, and checked the papers about this problem. There are numerous of them who tried to solve issue but they were more specific in group of plants. For example, there is a competition in Kaggle, in which they tried to identify the category of foliar diseases in apple trees. Here is the sample, data link that is provided in competition page. I checked some of them, and tried to re-run their samples and test. My idea about this problem was more general approach, which is really challenging for one project. For instance, in that competition, they tried to detect if leaf has one, two or more than 2 diseases, however these diseases are known beforehand. Hence, system was learned with the samples of these diseases, so if new one comes out, system won't be able reveal what this one is. My idea was to develop a system which detects all (in the best case, nearest to the all) and if there is any disease on leaf or not. After, analyzing the fact that how many different categories exist in today's plant pathology, I step back and think a while. I guess, it would be extremely challenging to do that, therefore, continued to search.

Finally, one of my groupmates told me his idea and I liked that. Because, I think it is one of the most interesting and useful project among the others I looked for. Thus, we discussed a few concepts of project, and started to collaborate. His idea is detection of automobile license numbers for specific purposes like automatic gates/entrances for vehicles. To train that model, we definitely will need dozens of image/video (mainly video) files. Actually, that's only one part of that project. Finding proper data. As our main focus will be detection vehicle registration plates in Azerbaijan, we will need to find good and reliable source of data for that purpose. This data set is sample from Kaggle. We will use the similar, but our purpose to do that based on stream/video data. Also, there are another aspects in that project which should be implemented after doing that part.

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Frankly, I wouldn't think the first week of classes might be that useful in summer. Although, we had only 2 classes these helped me to draw guideline in my brain (and also in paper) to develop the final project. I remember we talked about questions that should be inquired by us when starting to research about some topic. Actually, I used to try to ask similar questions beforehand when I do research, but those were not that explanatory. I suppose I am able to ask more explanatory questions, now, which is not minor step in research methodology. Personally, I am thinking around WHAT? ,WHY? and HOW? nowadays, while researching for final project.

Moreover, I especially liked the part which is talking about Heilmeier Catechism, because I never directly heard about it before. The questions were crafted by George H. Heilmeier are actually key for majority of the projects in dissimilar fields. Some of them, which I will bear in mind for the next projects:

• What are you trying to do?
  Although, I still didn't reach that phrase in my final project, this question suppress me to think about itself, currently. Because, this one may be mystery for majority even if they do something. Therefore, I would like to find definite answer to that question before starting to do something essential.
• Who cares?
  Is it really important? Will my research lead something valuable for environment/education/me myself and us. I think that one is really hard to answer and I still had trouble to answer it.

I still can talk other questions but I wanted to mention most important ones for me, above. Besides, the stages that should be passed in research project were discussed during lectures. Even though, I am still in the phase of "Define of problem", I try to think about next ones and it helps me to make proper decision about the first one.

Eventually, I do believe that this summer course will help me a lot while doing research. Personally, I always would like to prepare list of questions and trying to find answers for them as to do while I am working on project or research. Therefore, I highly appreciate the questions we have seen during first week of classes. Hope, I will be able to find proper questions and correct answers for research project, without losing much time.

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I am Farid Jafarov. I was born in Azerbaijan, Tovuz city on 3 September 1999. Now, I study in Master of Computer Science and Data Analytics program in ADA and George Washington university.

Frankly, I was not that into in Computer Science till the day I watched the movie, called "Who am I?" in the middle of first term in university. Then, I started to research and improve my knowledge in that field. Blockchain and data science are some of the interesting topics that I would like to dive deeper in Computer science. However, during my trip I passed some exciting checkpoints including High Performance Computing, Competitive programming and Mobile app development. I have written research paper on the visualization challenge of HPC when I was bachelor.

Besides, I love watching movies, listening classic music and playing PC games in my leisure time. Also, I do believe that movies affects the life of people and their characters in numerous ways.


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