--- title: Eboard 29 Project introduction number: 29 section: eboards held: 2019-04-15 --- CSC 151 2019S, Class 29: Project introduction ============================================== _Overview_ * Preliminaries * Notes and news * Upcoming work * Extra credit * Questions * About the project * Group composition and construction * Playing and brainstorming Preliminaries ------------- ### News / Etc. * Notes from our student ACM chapter * ACM = Associated Colleges of the Midwest * ACM = Association of Computing Machinery [this one] * Tech internship meeting Thursday at 6:30 in Noyce 3821. * Meet with alums, ask questions, small group discussions, etc. * Bring your resume and get feedback. * Mentor sessions Wednesday 8-9 p.m., Thursday 8-9 p.m., Sunday 5-6 p.m. * Folks should think about taking CSC 161 in the fall. It's a great class, and you get to work with robots! * I'm a bit behind (what else is new), so the formal description of the project won't be released until Wednesday. ### Upcoming work * [Homework 8](../assignments/assignment08) due Tuesday. * If you write "We each spent at least four hours on this assignment" on the assignment, you will get at least a check. * Friday's quiz: Pairs, Vectors * Reading for Wednesday: [Design patterns and higher-order procedures](../readings/hop) * Flash cards Wednesday: Pairs, Vectors * No lab writeup. ### Extra Credit _I would certainly appreciate suggestions of other extra credit activities (preferably via email)._ #### Extra credit (Academic/Artistic) * The Magic Flute, April 18, 7:00 p.m. Sebring-Lewis * **New**: Any student research week activity. #### Extra credit (Peer) * **New**: Track and Field at home this Saturday. (30 min) * Time details forthcoming. * **New**: Women's Golf at Beloit this weekend. * **New**: SS at Math/Stats seminar, Tuesday, 11am, Science 2517. 1/7th of an ellipse. Learn what it means. #### Extra credit (Wellness) * **TONIGHT**: Monday, April 15, 7:30 p.m., Harris Cinema: From the Munchies to Memory Effects: What the Science Says About Cannabis/Marijuana #### Extra credit (Wellness, Regular) * **TODAY**: 30 Minutes of Mindfulness at SHACS (SHAW) every Monday 4:15-4:45 * Any organized exercise. (See previous eboards for a list.) * 60 minutes of some solitary self-care activities that are unrelated to academics or work. Your email reflection must explain how the activity contributed to your wellness. * 60 minutes of some shared self-care activity with friends. Your email reflection must explain how the activity contributed to your wellness. #### Extra credit (Misc) * **New**: CS Internship Hour, Thursday, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Noyce 3821. _Free Pizza_. * Participate in Kinetic Sculpture Competition: Saturday the 27th * * You'll need to build your sculpture in advance. * You get reimbursed for up to $200 in supplies, but must present to be reimbursed. * Public speaking workshop - April 22 at 7pm in HSSC S3325, with Kathy Clemons-Beasley '05. "Kathy is the Global head of Leadership and Manager Development for Blackrock and has been the speaker coach for TEDxGC." * Clothing donation boxes in lounges. Donate! ### Other good things ### Questions _Why didn't we learn about vectors earlier._ > Lists are often better for many tasks. > Mutation can be problematic. It's harder to know things about the state of your program when someone else can unexpectedly change the state elsewhere. (define stuff (vector 1 2 3 4 5)) (equals? (vector-ref stuff 0) 1) ... (equals? (vector-ref stuff 0) 1) ; If the ellipses are (define more stuff) (vector-set more 0 "hello") _Did you know that you had erroneous code in the example for f?_ > Odds are good that I have erroneous code somewhere. About the project ----------------- Goal : Do something new and interesting with a prototypical set of DH "data". Collaboration : In a group of one to four people. Why one? Some people don't like to collaborate. Length : Over a two-week period (plus a little more). Sanity : Using about four hours per week for each group member Products : Proposal : Code : Short paper : Lightning presentation Data : OCR'ed S&B archives from the 1960's, available on `/home/rebelsky/Desktop/SandB` Opportunities : Improve it! (That is, turn the word-like things into words.) : Better version of topic modeling. : Visualize data : Simpler statistics and evolution (e.g., most common words) : Information on nearby words : Automatically add XML tags (hah) : Generate random S&B articles using text statistics : Write something that identifies all of the headlines (and does something with them) Reminder : The tool is not the end product; you should do some post-analysis Group composition and construction ---------------------------------- Two issues to consider: * Combination of skills * Preferred approach to the data What might you do? (See above for preliminary list.) * Visualize the changes in the most common words. (For example, we could pick the twenty most common words and do a chart for each of the ten years.) (Multiple visualizations likely possible in the time-frame given.) * Identify all of the headlines. (And maybe use them for further analysis.) * Emotional analysis of the text (plus visualization) * Tie to common historical context. * Evolution of particularly meaningful terms over the ten year period. (E.g., pronouns, "diversity") * Use of proper names and what (emotional) terms appear nearby. * Use of political terms and the context in which they appear. * Statistical generation of mid-60's S&B articles. Sam's summary for grouping * Visualization * Text generation * Emotional analysis and/or patterns * Other What skills would be useful? * Combining different skills leads to more intersting/better projects; different combinations will lead to different approaches. (Different views, too.) * Math/Stats - Good at dealing with numbers * "Words" - Particularly good at writing/speaking * Leadership * Creativity - Idea generation * Code expainer - Someone who can explain difficult code concepts * Algorithmicist - Someone who can turn the algorithms we develop into code. * "Devil's advocate" - Someone who is willing to challenge the status quo. What work styles do you have? * Scheduling (weekends, mornings, evenings) * Location (don't live on the same hall as your work group) * Talkativity Colored * Purple - I like to argue * Yellow - I'm easygoing * Green - I'm a leader * Red - I can't work on weekends * Blue - I'm an open person Categories - Primary Focus * Visualization - NE * Generation - SE * Patterns - SW * Topic modeling - NW Playing and brainstorming -------------------------