Guidelines for the report in the seminar of big data management 2017

1. Difference between presentations and reports First, please note that the goals of presentations and reports in this seminar are different:  Presentations: Present to the audiences and let them understand your topic.  Reports: Show your own critical thinking and new ideas on this topic based on the papers you read. Therefore, a presentation is like “an introduction to one topic”, but a report is like “a paper review and an opportunity for critical thinking”. In presentations, students are expected to introduce the research problems and challenges, and show intuitive examples and applications. But in reports, students are expected to give novel ideas and to show critical thinking based on the papers students read. So the purposes are different for presentations and reports. 2. Goal of report writing A general goal of report writing is to show that students have good understanding on one specific topic of big data management and students can produce independently a well-formed and finished written report on it. Therefore, the following questions should be answered in the report. 1. What are the research problems? 2. What are the strengths of the previous paper(s)? 3. What are the main weaknesses of the previous paper(s)? 4. If you were to solve this problem, what would you do?