User:RBrennan
From REU@MU
Contents
Overview of Schedule
| Week | Tasks | Deliverables |
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| Week 0 (6/1 - 6/3) | REU Introduction and Bootcamps
Defining schedule, milestones, and goals |
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| Week 1 (6/3 - 6/10) | Researching existing solutions | Milestones + Goals (due Fri. 6/4) |
| Week 2 (6/10 - 6/17) | Define research problem
Brainstorm solutions |
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| Week 3 (6/17 - 6/24) | Research and review Dr. Perouli’s work
Define solution path and implementation steps |
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| Week 4 (6/24 - 7/1) | Start implementation of solution
Put together presentation (Most likely 1 day max) |
Mini Presentations (Wed. 6/30) |
| Week 5 (7/1 - 7/8) | Implementation and refinement | |
| Week 6 (7/8 - 7/15) | Implementation and refinement | |
| Week 7 (7/15 - 7/22) | Test implementation with real data set | |
| Week 8 (7/22 - 7/29) | Finish Project
Work on research deliverables |
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| Week 9 (7/29 - 8/6) | Finishing Research Deliverables | Formal Presentations (Thu.-Fri. 8/6-8/7)
Research Poster (Thu. 8/6) Research Paper (Fri. 8/7) |
Devote some time every day to formalizing and logging research:
- Summaries of what I’m working on for wiki
- Challenges I’m facing, paths I didn’t take
- Findings and results
- Annotated Bibliography
- Anything else I will forget about when it comes time to work on deliverables
Devote at least half an hour each day to emails, scheduling, and other logistics
2021 Weekly Logs
Week 0 (6/1 - 6/3)
- Met with Dr. Perouli
- Introduced the project
- Discussed first steps
- Discussed goals for the project
- Attended REU introductions and data science bootcamp
- Attended Good Research Practices Talk with Dr. Brylow
- Outlined milestone and goals for research
- Research ways to characterize sets of multidimensional data
- Determine the best way to do this for concept maps
- Create executable code for the direction we’ve determined is the best
- Create cohesive research deliverables on this topic
- Outlined broad schedule for first 3 weeks
Week 1 (6/3 - 6/10)
- Met with Dr. Perouli
- Adjusted and finished overview of schedule
- Talked over what previous research I should be looking into
- Discussed the overarching problem I'm looking into
- Created and added schedule to wiki
- Interviewed Abby Brennan about learning measurement deliverables
- Created thought maps to hone in on research topic
- "Visualizing a group's understanding of a concept"
- File:Brennan ResearchTopic Thought Maps.pdf
