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Welcome to our research group for 2012-2013!
WPST analysis group wiki page (Martin and Thomas)
DBMS performance testing group wiki page (Thomas)
2012-2013
Next Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing will be in Baltimore, MD, October 3 – 6, 2012.
Next Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing will be February 8-10, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Welcome to our research group for 2011-2012!
Here are our wiki pages for last year's work.
DBMS performance testing group wiki page (Thomas)
Data Mining group wiki page (Martin)
Carter's group wiki page (Carter)
GIS group wiki page (Hauselt)
IR Data Analysis group wiki page
Spring 2012
"The Age of Big Data" New York Times, Feb 11, 2012
April 2012
College of Natural Science Poster Celebration - submit your work as a poster, show off what you've done this year!
January 24, 2012
Important dates for Spring 2012
- Student Research Competition, registration / submission deadline 2/24/2012
- Student Research Competition 3/9/2012, SRC Procedures and Guidelines
- Oral Presentation Advice by Mark Hill (note that conference presentations are 20-30 minutes, but your SRC presentation will be only 10! Distill, distill, summarize, distill. The generic talk outline he provides may be useful, in any short presentation you ever give.)
- Giving a Technical Presentation by Michael Ernst (also includes advice on in-class presentations)
- CCSC-SW poster abstracts due 3/9/2012
- CCSC-SW conference, Stockton, poster session: 3/24/2012 (or 3/23)
- Northern California Undergraduate Mathematics Conference will be April 21st at CSU Stanislaus. Presentation applications due about March 16th-ish.
- Coll Nat'l Sciences poster display / session: May 2012
- Student technical reports, good draft, due 5/2/2012
- Student technical reports due, final draft 5/16/2012 (Reading Day)
- Final exams start 5/17/2012
Guidelines on Research Practice in Computer Science
November work
January 24, 1 - 4 pm, group meeting / workshop
On the day before, or the day after, the workshop, we may hold an LSA workshop for those interested.
incomplete list of project ideas and data sets for Spring 2012
| Students | Carter | Hauselt | Martin | Thomas | DeVries/Astrmy | CSU Stan IR data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max A | ||||||
| Sam B | x | x | ||||
| Melissah B | x | x | x-and census | |||
| Cassie C | x | x | x | |||
| Carlos C | ||||||
| Kristi D | ||||||
| Armando G | x | x | x | |||
| Cameron G | x | x | ||||
| Christopher H | ||||||
| Jose P | X | X | X | |||
| Robert J | X | |||||
| Lon P | X | X | X | |||
| Aaron R | XXX | |||||
| Matt S | X | |||||
| Emmanuel W | ||||||
| Lue Y | X |
September-October work
Annual ART Success Rates Reports: a data source for independent projects
August Workshop
Monday
AAAI Conference. Papers all available. (Martin)
CIMIS water data (Hauselt)
'The Joy of Stats' video. Mentioned in the video: Crimespotting maps, Google Language Translation tools, LSST telescope, successor to the Sloan Sky Survey, We Feel Fine project, visualizing feelings
Prezi - Zooming Presentation Editor (Carter)
Tuesday
- Weka: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
- MySQL: http://dev.mysql.com/ (free DBMS software -- try the Community Server, or the "Windows download"). Here is extra help installing MySQL on a Mac.
- NetLogo: http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
Wednesday
Hauselt's talk slides from today
Geospatial Revolution / Episode One
Ushahidi - free and open-source mapping technology
Open Street Map - free, wiki-based world map
Thursday
Martin's slides from today's talk
Test data to load into MySQL after installing, and test script to use when loading test data into MySQL. You'll need to edit the script to specify where, on your own computer, you've stored the test data file.
M. Thomas's slides from today's talk
Free courses at Stanford in Fall 2011
Fall Schedule
| Dates | Carter | Hauselt | Martin | Thomas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/22-9/18 | Ball, Cardoza, Davis, Yang | Andrade, Gose, Reesh, Cisneros | Baer, Garcia, Perez, Jimenez | Hill, Porter, Stephens, Ware |
| 9/19-10/9 | Hill, Porter, Stephens, Ware | Ball, Cardoza, Davis, Yang | Andrade, Gose, Reesh, Cisneros | Baer, Garcia, Perez, Jimenez |
| 10/10-10/30 | Baer, Garcia, Perez, Jimenez | Hill, Porter, Stephens, Ware | Ball, Cardoza, Davis, Yang | |
| 10/31-11/20 | Baer, Garcia, Perez, Jimenez | Hill, Porter, Stephens, Ware | Ball, Cardoza, Davis, Yang | |
| 11/28 on | Re-form groups for research projects |
