What is STEP?#


STEP = Study Through Exploration and Presentation#


Halfway through the course, you’ll choose an aspect of machine learning that sparks your curiosity and investigate it.

The STEP has three goals:

  1. Deepen your knowledge
    Your own questions will be your guidance. Choose what you most want to grasp and build intuition around.

  2. Get hands-on
    Design a small coding demo to highlight your main results. A Jupyter notebook is very pedagogical, but the output format is totally free… as long as it validates the goal 3.

  3. Nail a crystal-clear presentation that effortlessly sparks understanding of your peers
    In other words: Be a Teacher!* The STEP is a pretext to sharpen your didactical skills, and to train yourself toward becoming an outstanding speaker. Think of how many opportunities open if you are an excellent communicator. Direct bonus: this will give you a confidence boost that lasts.


Group size

For the STEP, you can work in groups of 2 or 3. Exceptions can be made if you want to be solo or in a group of 4 (case of an ambitious STEP where workload can be ealsity divided). This will have to be validated by the instructor.


The presentations will happen during the last lecture (with double the time to fit all groups).

Two constraints

  1. The final presentation should be 10 minutes long.

  2. Throughout the process, you must maximize the fun function.

The list#

The next section lists some STEPs for you perusal. If you want to submit your own idea, please go to the Section Submit Your Own STEP!