User:Scloew

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
• Began writing paper to document work

Week 4

• Meetings with Dr. Corliss
• REU lunch
• Read papers on probabilistic forecasting
• Worked on MATLAB code for scoring metrics
• Continued work on paper
• Gave seminar talk at GasDay lab

Week 5

• REU presentations
• Worked on examples paper
• Read papers on metrics
• Read papers on examples
• met with Dr. Corliss

Week 6

• Made outline for Metrics paper
• Began looking into uncertainty quantification
• Set up interviews with Marquette faculty and grad students to hear about their research
• Meetings with Dr. Corliss
• Attended Dr. Brylows talk on grad school

Week 7

• Interviewed Dr. Lin on uncertainty quantification
• Interviewed Saber Mohammad on his graduate work on probabilistic forecasts
• REU lunch and Dr. Factor's talk on making posters
• Worked on writing/revising paper
• Started working on metrics paper

Week 8

• Meetings with Dr. Corliss
• Studied proper scoring metrics
• Edited examples paper
• Worked on metrics paper
• Looked into uncertainty quantification
• Made poster for REU poster show

Week 9

• Meetings with Dr. Colriss
• Made and gave seminar presentation
• Presented at REU poster show
• REU lunch
• worked on papers
• looked into density forecasts

Week 10

• Preparation, participation, and attendance of final REU presentations
• First submission and edit session with Dr. Corliss
• Closing meetings with Dr. Corliss and Alberto; discussed future of projects
• Tying up some REU stuff; exiting survey, cleaning of apartment, etc.
• Submission of final paper