Final Paper and Poster
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Attached are the final versions of my paper and poster
Weekly Update (4/15)
This week, I spent time figuring out how to make the software publication ready, and discussed with Craig on whereabouts of the server and database
Weekly Update (4/10)
This week, I finalized my poster and prepared my paper for the evaluation draft submission. I also met with Craig to discuss taking the application live.
March 27 update
This week ive been working on revising my paper according to the feedback i got and suggestions from Xunfei. Ive been trying to polish out any remaining functionality issues and format it better for presentations.
Weekly Update
This week, I started working on my poster, and revised my paper based on the feedback I received from Dave and Ajit
weekly update (3/16)
This week I tested out the reader with student interface, and checked if self-check in and check-out worked properly. I also met with Craig and discussed plan to migrate the application to the server and perhaps have it ready for … Read More
Weekly update (3/5)
This week I spent most of my time working on the paper, and finished the implementation and design sections. I also started working on the administrator interface and got a good portion of it done.
March 6th update
This week I have been working on my paper both revising the submitted partial draft and adding the portions that were not done yet. I have also done some work on my project itself. I have been doing a lot … Read More
Feb 27 update
This week I: -worked on my paper draft -worked on fixing bugs in my software
Weekly update (2/25)
This week I finished implementing a rough version of the student user interface. I spent a considerable time discussing the logic behind to student check out and check and what measures were necessarily to put in. I received feedback from … Read More
February 20th Update
-I created a large variation to my algorithm that spacializes the visualization based on the ratios just intonation ratio instead of being directly correlated to the frequencies. This involved implenting a new module that calculates the just intonation ratio and … Read More
Weekly update (2/17)
This week I discussed the structure of my paper with Ajit, and received feedback on how to explain the design and implementation sections. I also started working on implementing the student user interface.
Feb 13th update
This week I did the following tasks: -Met with Dave about the structure of my outline and my experimental results section -Met with Forrest to get feedback on my work. -Began to work on a new variation of my algorithm … Read More
Weekly Update (Feb 10)
This week I finalized the schema for the database with Ajit, and familiarized myself with the PostgreSQL commands after receiving the log in information from Craig. I faced an unexpected challenge with the ordering of the RFID device from Ebay. … Read More
Feb 6 update
This week I accomplished several things: -Reconfigured the way my patch combines matrices to avoid issues I was having w crossfade -implenented horizontal movement after note press -Organized parts of my project into sub-patches and cleaned up some stuff -Implemented … Read More
Weekly Update
This week, I finally got my own laptop so I redownloaded all the necessary software and libraries for my gesture recognition system. Using the OpenCV library in Python, I was finally able to use the camera to detect the hand … Read More
Weekly Update (Jan 30)
This week I met with Ajit and discussed some of the necessary features for the user interface that the administrator will be using. This involved seeing a list of recently checked out items, adding new objects, and adding new users. … Read More
January 30 Update
Here is what I worked on for my project this week: -Worked with poly tool to process two simultaneous notes. -Got it working but temporarily disabled the circle of fifths map table-Now midi messages are sent to two paths for … Read More
CS488 Week1 Update
Researched how image processing works (tutorials, examples using python and open-source software OpenCV). ~20 minutes on 1/19/19, ~30 minutes on 1/21/19 Made sure all necessary software was downloaded to my computer. ~30 minutes on 1/17/19 Adjusted timeline. ~15 minutes on 1/23/19
CS488 – Welcome Post
This is my first post for CS488. Met with Ajit to plan the next few weeks, and decided to start the data collection this week. Edited the timeline a little bit to include implementation of the project. I’ve shared my … Read More
388 week 1 – 3 ideas
My first idea is for a application that allows the computer to be navigated with gesture control, initial thought is to use the camera that is on almost every laptop to map the mouse pointer between say the thumb and … Read More
January 23 Update
I have gotten off to a relatively smooth start on my project. Xunfei is going to be my adviser and I have scheduled a meeting with her for tomorrow morning. I have prepared to present on my topic in class … Read More
First Post- Ali
This week I met with Ajit for an hour. We went over timeline and design of my project. I also met with Craig and ordered the RFID reader and tags after approving them.
Final deliveries for CS488
Paper: Fake_News_Capstone Poster: Github directory: https://github.com/mashres15/FakeNewsCapstone
Weekly Update
This week after receiving feedback from Xunfei on the second draft of my paper, I updated it with respect to her comments. I also followed up with Craig; he is going to purchase the equipment early next semester.
Weekly Update
Worked on the poster and got it printed. Copy of the poster attached.
Weekly update Dec 3rd
This week I received feedback on the second draft of my proposal from Xunfei. I spent time updating the proposal with respect to her feedback. I also met with Craig and decided on a set of RFID reader and tags. … Read More
CS-488 Nov 28 Update
This and the previous week, I spend my time trying to beat my way through a variety of problems related to one specific module of my project’s code. After talking over it with my adviser I have shifted both that … Read More
Weekly Update
This week, I was focused on making the poster and including the final results of my research.
Weekly Update (Nov 23)
This week I haven’t been able to work much because of some traveling. However, I was able to think more about my design decision including the RFID reader that I will buying. I have selected a device, and discussed with … Read More
Weekly update (Nov 17)
This week I received feedback from Xunfei on my initial draft of proposal. I spent the last few days thinking more about design and trying to answer some questions that Xunfei raised. I tried referring back to my sources and … Read More
Weekly Update
Here is an updated machine learning pipeline for my project.
Weekly Update
Submitted the CS second draft on Wednesday and waiting for Xunfei’s Feedback. The demo presentation went well without much questions from the audience. On working on making the poster for the presentation on Dec 5.
November 14th Update
This week I did a lot of research into how jitter works and how it communicates with max and msp objects. In the process I found a few more helpful sources to replace some of the less relevant related works … Read More
Weekly Update 12 – Fall break is around the corner!
Met with Ajit to talk about the follow up steps on Monday. Based on the feedback, we decided to focus efforts on the following: Updating the design framework/diagram, Writing and explaining the design of the project, Read other published papers … Read More
Weekly update
I have been reading up on documentation and research for the Leap Motion controller so that writing the code will be more easily managed in the future. I have also been updating the commented portions of my proposal, and I’m … Read More
Weekly Update
This week I worked more on my proposal after I received constructive feedback from Xunfei. I explored some of the papers further in depth to learn about how to design my project. I am also researching on what tools to … Read More
Weekly Update
Worked on the demo presentation. Experimented with 2 datasets each taking 4 hours of run time. One observation I found is that changing the labels of the fake news changes the accuracy. It was found that detecting reliable news rather … Read More
November 7 Update
My proposal adviser will be Dave. We met last friday to talk about my project idea. one note he gave me was to be clear what parameters I will use to measure my success since my project is almost completely … Read More
Weekly Update 11 – Happy Diwali!
Did second pass for more papers for this week, focusing on the design, and processes used, Met with Ajit on Monday to discuss the project and plan rest of the semester, Took Quiz 5 for Project update.
Weekly Update
This week, I met with Craig, and discussed what kind of tools I need to purchase for the project, such as RFID reader and Tags. There are many options however, I need to make sure to purchase a reader that … Read More
Weekly Update
The front end development part for my project is almost complete. The database setup and connection is completed. The integration of backend machine learning model with flask has worked. The flask prediction model has also been linked with the frontend. There … Read More
Weekly Update
I read more papers where the researchers used a Leap Motion controller to recognize gestures. People use a variety of methods to classify static and dynamic gestures. One of the more frequently used methods takes advantage of a ‘Hidden Markov … Read More
October 31 update
This week I accomplished these tasks: -found the rest of my 15 sources for my paper -Met with Xunfei to discuss my design outline -wrote my project proposal -Did a second pass of a few of my papers
CS-488 Update 8
Worked on my final paper some more, as well as familiarizing myself with my two-node blockchain set-up. I’m still working out how to integrate my other modules into the system, particularly how to pass a function from one server to … Read More
Weekly Update 10 – Happy Halloween
Did second pass for three papers for this week, Worked on First draft for proposal.
Weekly Update
I reviewed more papers over the week to get a better sense of what I would need to address in my proposal. I also met with Xunfei and discussed the structure of my project as well as how to work with … Read More
Weekly Update
Worked on the front end component of the project. With the sys admin telling me that they cannot host flask for my project. I started to look for alternatives. Heroku could not be used as it did not provide support for … Read More
Weekly Update 9
Did second pass for three papers, posted on the box, Took Quiz 4 for CS388, Chose 3 papers for next week.
CS-488 Update 7
I have successfully set up a blockchain system, and run experiments to familiarize with how it works and the involved processes. My first draft of the paper is mostly complete and will be ready by the deadline tonight. It will … Read More
Weekly Update
This week I finished writing the literature review and looking in depth into the literature available for my two topics: RFID in library and Sentiment analysis for stock prediction. I believe I will proceed with RFID technology and research more … Read More
Weekly Progress
Finished the machine learning pipeline with actual experimentation. Having issues getting Flask setup and have been in touch with the SysAdmins. Halfway through the first draft of the paper. Made new design for the system architecture.
Weekly Update 8
Finished literature review. Selected 1 topic from the remaining two for Quiz 3 (proposal)
CS488 – Update 6
Last week I was able to set-up a two node blockchain on the Earlham Cluster, after working through technical issues with the help of Craig. However, I discovered several problems with this structure this week. I couldn’t re-access an already … Read More
October 17 Update
This week I dedicated my time towards designing my proposal idea. After my literature review I decided I wanted to continue my audiovisual project. I read through the documentation for the jitter programming language to see what would be feasible … Read More
Weekly Update
I did an experimentation with Sci-kit Learn. The run-time for the program was more than 2 hours. Testing the multiple dataset has been an issue lately.
Weekly update
Progress on the draft of the paper. Related works is almost completed.
October 10 update
This week I made good progress in my research. Here are some of the things I have done: -Met with Forrest Tobey to discuss his past research involving motion tracking virtual instruments as well as visual capabilities of the Max/MSP/Jitter … Read More
Weekly Update 7
Started 2nd pass for the papers. Continued work on literature review.
Weekly Update
Worked on the first draft of the paper. Focusing on the related works and findings currently.
CS488 – Update 5
After talking to Ajit about the problems I have been running into with my virtual machines I’ve made the decision to switch to using the Earlham servers for the purpose of running my experiments and collecting data. There’s only one … Read More
Weekly Update 6
Finished bibliography. Selected two topics and prepared topics presentation. Started literature review.
CS388: Weekly Update
In the past week, I have been working on the related for my three project ideas. I wrote an annotated bibliography for each topic with five different sources. This week got rid of one of the ideas and decided to … Read More
Progress
Build a rough machine learning pipeline for testing. Worked with Ajit to update timeline. Started with the first draft of paper.
CS488 – Update 4
I’ve laid down the bare bones for my thesis paper. With the main project however, I am running into problems with my virtual machines and blockchain code, rather I keep running into problem after problem with them. I plan … Read More
Weekly Update 5
Continued working on Annotated Bibliography: Found more papers on the topics, Did the first pass reading for all of them.
Weekly Update
Created a smaller dataset using pySpark for training and testing the fake news model.
Weekly Update (09/19/2018)
I’ve been researching Voronoi graph regions and their usage in recommendation system. I’m particularly interested in finding open-source implementation of Voronoi graph regions usage. I’ve also been reading and researching FiveThirtyEight’s gerrymandering maps and how they created their maps of … Read More
Weekly Update 4
Read the papers and summarized them. I am leaning more towards the gesture control system idea, but at the moment it seems like I keep finding more and more challenges to overcome with this project. Typing with gestures may not … Read More
september 19th update
My project ideas have been evolving since starting to research articles. My main fields of research have been in audiovisual synthesis, motion control for virtual instruments, and algorithmic music composition. I have found lots of articles including a good one … Read More
Weekly update 4
Met with Andy Moore and talked about projects regarding natural disasters. Realized that many of the ideas were too big for a semester, and started researching in Earthquake Early Warning systems Worked on Quiz 2, and collected papers for each … Read More
CS-488 Update 3
Have found a working software for my Virtual Machines and the blockchain program to run on them, was harder to find than I thought it would be. I have my timeline finished and solidified thanks to my talk with Ajit, … Read More
Weekly update
I spent the past week reading related papers to my three ideas. It helped me gain a better understanding of the scope and challenges associated with each potential project. I also met with Ajit and discussed the projects. I believe … Read More
Weekly Update
Worked with setting up sci-kit learn and testing environment. Got Craig to give me access to Pollock and Bronte.
Weekly update 3
Read the papers about how to read a paper. Met with Michael Lerner regarding one of the strategies talked about in his research last year. Found 5-7 papers related to each of the three topic areas. Attempted the Quiz 1 … Read More
Weekly Update
Met with my advisor twice, worked on an updated timeline. Worked out a design framework and prepared the presentation slides.
Weekly Update 3
This week, I decided to change my first project (soccer coaching tool) and do something different. I haven’t really thought to utilize my knowledge I’ve gained from classes and I want to do some type of AI or ML project. … Read More
Weekly update
-I met with Kendall to get my ACM membership -I continued refining my ideas. -I talked with music professor Forrest Tobey about my ideas and projects that the music department is interested in.
Senior Capstone 3 Ideas
Improved Earlham Directory I want to work on a system that manages courses, students and registration similar to Earlham directory but with better management and user-interface. The project will entail a large scale design and breakdown of the problem into … Read More
Weekly Update 2
Met with Ajit to filter ideas regarding parallel computing, and machine learning. Emailed Andy Moore in Geology to talk about Earthquake and Tsunami predictions. Emailed Charlie for suggestions regarding my Structure From Motion idea. Searched for more specific details on work … Read More
Ben FS / CS-488 / Update 1
Have set up and arranged weekly meeting times with Ajit as my adviser. We’ll be meeting weekly at 4:00pm on Wednesday. I have better evaluated what pitfalls and goals I will need to be aware of for my research, and … Read More
Second post about project ideas
Idea 1: Soccer Coaching Tool Did research to find similar softwares for coaching. Idea 2: Hand/Finger Gesture Sensor for Browser Control and Navigation Read research papers regarding similar ideas about monitoring hands and fingers. Found devices that provide the sensors … Read More
Started working on Fake News Detection
Started the project pipeline for Fake News Detection.
Weekly Update 1
Looked for three general areas that I want to do my research in, namely: Structure from Motion Disaster prep and management Parallel Computing Searched for some related work that has happened in these areas.
Senior Project Ideas
Ideas: Pillow AI: I am thinking of having Arduino device built-in the pillow, which can be charged and have heart-rate sensors to receive heart-rate while the person is sleeping. Having this data, I could determine sleeping patterns and find the Light Sleep … Read More
Ali Shahram Musavi-Project Ideas
I realize my ideas are a bit general at the moment, but I am trying to make them more specific and novel after discussing with Dave and Ajit. Predicting stock prices using sentiment analysis of social media resources such as … Read More
Ben Folk-Sullivan Second Entry, CS388
(Made my first entry as part of my Portfolio by accident) January 23rd, 2018 Spent time thinking and researching for a third idea, decided to go with an adaptation of one of my other ideas. ~2 hours 30 minutes.
Project Idea 3
A Data Science and Machine Learning Project to explore the stock data of a particular stock exchange. The exploration will be focused on observing the repetitive trend in stock markets and relating it to the business cycles. Some questions that can … Read More
Project Idea 2
A portfolio tracker that keep tracks of investments in stocks in a particular market. Keeping in mind the time limitation, it would be better to focus on small markets for this project. The web-based application will provide different portfolios to … Read More
Project Idea 1
The project is about creating a software that can determine an optimal value for a company by looking at their balance sheets records in the past to predict future cash flows. Financial analysis methods such as DCF, DDM and FCE … Read More