I met with my mentors 3 times to discuss the proposal’s feedback and what I can do to improve it. I also reached out to some folks whose previous work could help me. I decided on my end product as a result of that. I also decided to change a few things in my project based on the feedback I got. I will start with a simpler artist style to replicate and if that goes well, I will move to the more complex one. I will also most likely change my sensor from an “air quality” to a CO sensor because that will allow me to see more variation on campus, but I will have to obtain preliminary data before I can make a final call.

A much slower week than normal, I was swamped with a number of other pre break assignments so I wasn’t able to put much work into reading or revising this week. But I was able to work on revising my introduction and related works section. The focus for the coming week will be to make any final revisions in my paper, and see if there are one or two more papers worth adding in. Found a very good paper on field work that helps establish the background for my work.

During the past week, my focus has been on:

• Preparing for the demo.
• Working on the second draft of the paper.
• Manually labeling the corpus.
• Working on getting the overlapping tests working.
• Outlining the poster.

During the last week, I mostly continued working on getting the exhaustive parameter search working for the classifiers. At first, I was having a few errors but in the end, I was able to get it working and get results.

Next, I worked with the Open American National Corpus. I extracted all the text files in one folder. I was able to convert those text files into a csv where each sentence is contained in one row. After that, I run a script which created two csv files: one containing sentences which can potentially contain analogies and one that potentially don’t. I have started labeling them manually.

I have also started preparing for the demo and the second draft of the paper.

My adviser for my project for the remainder of the semester is Charlie Peck. We met on Tuesday to discuss my weekly plan. Over the next 4 weeks I will be building the database from the source code, which includes installation of many things. I will also be doing statistical analyses over some datasets that I have yet to find in order to understand the research/ database user side of my project. I have a clear plan of my tasks that lay ahead.

Found an advisor, Ajit, and scheduled a meeting. Otherwise did a second look at a couple papers I had only done a first pass on. Otherwise waiting on feedback on my first draft and spent a little time looking at some potential test data if I find myself in need of other sources.

This week

• I met with Seth Hopper concerning light pollution on campus and different ways to measure that, so I have some ideas to test.
• I was introduced to some of the fire department’s devices to measure air quality, which will help me improve my design to get better data.