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*Predicted results from NN still have very low accuracy, still trying to fix | *Predicted results from NN still have very low accuracy, still trying to fix | ||
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Revision as of 15:19, 22 June 2021
About Me
Hello! I'm Theresa Chen, student at Carleton College, class of '22. I am a double major in environmental studies and computer science.
Work Log
Week 1
Working part-time due to still being in school
Tuesday 6/1
- Attend REU orientation
- Attend mini data science boot camp
Wednesday 6/2
- Continue mini data science boot camp
Thursday 6/3
- Attend Good Research Practices Talk by Dr. Brylow
Week 2
Tuesday 6/8
- Meet with Dr. Puri, discuss overall research goals
- Begin literature review
Wednesday 6/9
- Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) training
- Attend REU event on technical writing
Thursday 6/10
- Continue lit review
- Familiarize self with different ICESAT-2 data products
- Watch some tutorials from ICESAT-2 hackweek
Friday 6/11
- Lit review- looking at articles related to areas of interest in the arctic
- Meet with Dr. Puri
- Narrow down interest to ATL03 files, start pre-processing data
Week 3
Monday 6/14
- Continue lit review
- Explore captoolkit, used to process ATL06 open altimetry data
- Try to reduce HDF5 file to only variables selected for project
Tuesday 6/15
- Visualize raw photon height data from selected study area in the arctic
- Experiment with data visualizations
- Review past paper from old REU participant Erin Doyle
- Meet with Dr. Puri, decide to expand variable selection
Wednesday 6/16
- Working on processing HDF5 to csv
- Went to REU Professional Event
- Created REU Wiki pages
Thursday 6/17
- Double checking data sets by visualizing photon heights to see if elevation makes sense
- Obtaining datasets for several areas near the arctic circle
- Beginning machine learning tutorials using "keras" package
Friday 6/18
- Working on creating neural network.
- Mostly debugging tensorflow installation
- Experimenting with hyperparameters like epochs and batch size to reduce loss and increase accuracy.
Week 4
Monday 6/21
- Predicted results from NN still have very low accuracy, still trying to fix
Tuesday 6/22
