In Term 3 Week 7, I was preparing for my YICTE presentation and reviewing my data science project
Progress
- I made my presentation powerpoint that has gone for 120 minutes with 6 projects.
- I successfully presented my projects in front of 6 judges.
- I realised there is something that I can improve for my data science project.
YICTE
First of all, I spent around 2 days making my slides + setting up environment on a M1 (not gonna lie, m1 sucks at compatability but is unbelievably fast) + writing live demo.
According to all the judges, I was amazingly confident with myself, I explained my projects aloud with confidence, I covered all the technical areas with appropraite explanation when I was talking and also when I was answering. They said they were glad to see me and they felt my incredible talent. They said if they saw any of my projects on GitHub, they would never believe it was wrote by a Yr12 student. I think I definitely did well in the YICTE presentation with no doubt.
An optimization for my data science project
Currently the procedure of my Machine Learning Implementation is: download data from binance -> train model, and also download data from binance -> calculate standard deviation -> predict using a pre-trained model -> de-normalise output using the std -> return output.
If I can save the downloaded data locally, it will boost the performence of making predictions, as I need to download a whole month’s transaction data in each minute everytime I run the program, it cost a lot of time.
I realised I can optimize this in my dream on Sunday, so I decided to implement this next week.
Challenges
- Accepting the breaking news that my 5 mins/project presentation has been reshceduled to 15 mins/project was quite challenging.
- Preparing everthing for the presentation in the last two days was challenging as well…
- Host a presentation that is longer than 2 hours was dramatically challenging for my bladder, no doubt.
Reflection
I think I did really well this week. Although I didn’t learn much, I well-prepared my presentation. Meanwhile, I am proud of the presentation on Friday. I was not nervous at all, instead I was sort of exciting, and I was really confident to myself. The judges were engaged in my projects, and we ran over time for 10 minutes or so and they were so engaged that they forgot to interrupt me. There were no struggles last week that made me frustrating. I believe demonstrating confidence in presentation is very important. And I always have that confidence in IT area. Again, I am proud of myself.
Timeline
YICTE ruined this week’s schedule. I put my effort into the presentation, and I had no time to test my project. However, next week, I will optimize my project and continue testing it.