Mini Project/Final

[stelfrich]

Dear @ctienche,

@ctienche

It has just completed 1 round with a batch of 46 groups of students (around the age of 18).

Congratulations!

@ctienche

I am thinking of any possibility of KNIME holding a platform similar to Kaggle but have people submitting the Knime workflow and ranking their results?

We have parts of this proposition already implemented: Executing submitted workflows, scoring their results, and sending out notifications via email is all possible with one workflow that is regularly executed on KNIME Server. This implementation, however, is limited to tasks that can be scored automatically, e.g. classification, regression, …, against a ground truth.

When results are stored in a database, in addition to notifications, it is possible to implement a WebPortal workflow that reads the results, groups by participant, and shows the results in a table.

I like the idea of integration a competitive aspect into classes, but I think the ranking and implementation should be handled on the level of each course instead of yet another Kaggle-like platform.

@ctienche

One big challenge I face is to find suitable dataset that can help to achieve the learning outcome.

You are not alone in this: I have heard this feedback in a variety of discussions with other educators. We have started to talk about this in

Sample data (repositories) for teaching

Dear all, We had several lively discussion at KNIME Spring Summit about sample data that can be used for teaching. Those discussions have revealed a great need of the educators community. Since I personally don’t think that starting another repository for sample data is a great idea, I’d like to propose coming up with a selection of resources that you use when teaching data science (which should somehow also be importable into KNIME). Chime in if you know of any resources and I will compile th…

So let’s continue the discussion in the other topic. Thanks!

Best,
Stefan