Report chapter 2: Data acquisition and organization

Here, you can find an overview of how to contribute to chapter 2 of our report, copy & pasted from the report, so you do not need to create a pdf from the .tex files.

2 Data acquisition and organization

  Timetable (roadmap) of the project

    A (visual) overview of the project’s course during the year. Josefine    How we planned the project vs. how the actual timetable of the project looked like.

  Organisation of the study group

    Communication Richard    Deciding on a communication platform and handling it: organization in general, team meetings,    Asana, Telegram, and any other virtual form of communication

    Teamwork Richard    The experience of working in a team and organising/distributing tasks in a group:    task distribution, cooperation on tasks, GitHub: organising our project with Git,    Grid: working together with the IKW data store, other teamwork related experiences    (could we integrate the strengths and weaknesses of the single team members) …

  Data Collection Josefine

    How we collected the data and what the data looked like.    Here, the process of driving to Rheine and collecting the data with an external hard-drive is described.    Understanding the sorting machine and its output.    First problems that had to be resolved: labelled vs. unlabelled data ( -> running pre-sorted pieces    through the sorting machine, did not (completely) resolve our problem), saving the data manually    on an external harddrive ( -> solved by building a script for data transfer, and Teamviewer sessions)

  Literature research Josefine

    Previous literature research concerning food classification and handling unlabelled data.    Searching for background literature close to our project, e.g. automatic CV-based sorting of other    food products.    Researching supervised, but specifically semi-supervised and unsupervised learning approaches.    Re-reading on potential ANN structures that we could use for sorting.    What was the result?    Could we rely on a certain paper/process? Did it work?

How to write

Organisation of the study group

Communication

…

Teamwork

INTRODUCTION

  • 1-3 Introductory sentences: What are we going to read about in the next lines? (e.g. “In this subchapter, the teamwork experience and structuring of our group are outlined. .. “)

  • Name every point once (e.g. “First, the team members are introduced and their working abilities are evaluated. Then, the practical aspects of the teamwork are described, the working structure, how tasks were distributed, ….”)

Introduction of the team

  • Who is part of our team?

  • What was our background?

    • i.e. what were our Bachelors, any pre-experience with computer vision/programming/neural networks?

  • Who was part of our team at the beginning but did leave? Why did they leave and when?

Theory

  • Where were the general strengths and weaknesses of the single team members?

  • Did we evaluate/assess them beforehand?

    • e.g. with a Belbin test?

  • Did we make use of them/include them when thinking about our working structures?

MAIN PART: PRACTICE

Working structure

  • Was everyone working on their own? Did we split into groups? Was there a general structure?

    • e.g., distribution into specialty groups/ one team leader/ a democratic decision making process?

  • Did this group structure work?

    • Where were the advantages of working like this?

    • Where were the disadvantages?

Distributing tasks

  • Did we think beforehand about how we should distribute tasks or did we adapt to a system over time?

  • How were tasks distributed in the beginning?

    • e.g. by one person delegating them or did everyone select on their own from the tasks available

  • Did we start distributing them differently after some time? Why?

    • e.g. ‘yes, first everyone selected their tasks on their own, later we included manager roles and a working plan with distributions because we were lacking structure/communication and had less team-internal meetings independent of Ulf and Axel where the task distribution was made clear’ (just as example, no opinion)

Working platform

  • What did we use to work together?

    • i.e., Git, Grid, …

  • How do these platforms enable teamwork? Are they easy to use together?

    • Advantages/ Disadvantages

  • As a team, could we work well with the platforms? Why?

    • e.g. Refer to the advantages/disadvantages of the point before + add anything new, f.e. the time spent learning how to use them, …)


SUMMARY

Summarizing main points

  • Name the main point/message of every section of the above in one sentence, respectively.

  • Mention that we evaluate the outcome/fazit (what went good/bad; what we would keep/do different next time) of our teamwork in chapter 5.2.2

  • Before going to the next chapter of data collection, again tell in 2-3 sentences what was talked about in this subchapter and maybe hint what the next chapter will be about.

    • e.g. “Before moving to the next chapter of how we collected our data, the main ideas/focus of this chapter, namely the organization of our study group, can be summarized as … “ (just exampe)