Difference between revisions of "User:Scloew"
From REU@MU
(→Week 1) |
(did stuff) |
||
| Line 19: | Line 19: | ||
*Met with Dr. Corliss to get organized on project and summer goals | *Met with Dr. Corliss to get organized on project and summer goals | ||
*Attended Dr. Brylow's talk on what makes a good research talk | *Attended Dr. Brylow's talk on what makes a good research talk | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==== Week 3==== | ||
| + | *Engaged in discussion and lecture on the metaphysics and practice of morality in the ever expanding domain of research (went through ethics training...) | ||
| + | *Meetings with Dr. Corliss | ||
| + | *Attended Dr. Corliss LaTex seminar | ||
| + | *Read up on probabilistic forecasts | ||
| + | *Read up on scoring metrics | ||
| + | *Begin writing paper to document work | ||
Revision as of 15:29, 20 June 2016
Contents
Personal Info
Born and raised in Colorado Springs currently attending Coe College studying mathematics, computer science, and economics.
Week 1
- REU orientation
- Meetings with Dr. Corliss to get introduced to GasDay Lab and discuss project
- Read SuperForecasting by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner
- wrote program to give example of when Brier test fails as a metric of forecasting ability
- Completed MATLAB tutorial
- Wrote simple MATLAB programs
Week 2
- Received GasDay data collection orientation (oh the joys of real data....)
- Got (somewhat) familiar with GasDay wiki as a resource
- Worked on MATLAB coding and reviewed sample code from Dr. Corliss
- Read up on metrics for scoring probabilistic forecasts
- Read up on places probabilistic forecasts are used
- Met with Dr. Corliss to get organized on project and summer goals
- Attended Dr. Brylow's talk on what makes a good research talk
Week 3
- Engaged in discussion and lecture on the metaphysics and practice of morality in the ever expanding domain of research (went through ethics training...)
- Meetings with Dr. Corliss
- Attended Dr. Corliss LaTex seminar
- Read up on probabilistic forecasts
- Read up on scoring metrics
- Begin writing paper to document work
