7/29

To see the outline, go to Maria's blog.

Today I worked on learning Python the whole day. I didn't get much done today since I was very confused with the tutorial. So eventually I realized I still had the site that I initially searched up - a site that was geared more towards beginners. But still, I kept getting sidetracked with looking up other coding language.

Other than Python, I participated in an experiment today. For the experiment, I looked at dots.

The lunch today was good: I ate three plates of pickle chips.

7/28

Today the interns went to museum. It was a museum about photography and cameras. After the museum, we went to a place where we ate subs.

Then, we came back. I continued on the Python tutorial. I'm really confused on the "for-in" thing on it though.

The point of doing Python is to let us code the virtual reality gallery for our experiment.

And that's it.

7/27

Today was a lot of fun. I worked on Python, a coding language, for the entire day. I also got introduced to functions on Python by Nate. I had a bit of a roadblock at one point, but then I realized that the function will not run unless you write out the function name in a different line. I wasn't enough to just define the function. Now that I think about it, a function is just like a math equation, sometimes with words.

I also learned some of the code from Code Academy and other websites.

Ahhh--- Math is so much fun---

7/26

Today I worked on the AOIs again, and I'm still on the 5th person. I never really specified what the AOIs are for, so I'll do that now: it's like a filter that lets us see only that data inside the area we are interested in - in our case, the areas are the paintings the interns were looking at.

Sometime in the afternoon, my group went to Gabe. He wasn't present. Instead a student was there in his place. We then downloaded Python, a coding program, and then were taught some simple things we could do on it (such as using variables).

One last thing: when we were taking a break, I was telling Maria a story with my small imagination. It was a story about a son who wanted to avenged the murder of his mother. So he had to kill his father. But, in the end, the father killed the son and revealed that it was the son who killed the mother.  I thought it was a great plot twist. Maria thought ohterwise.

7/25

Today I continued working on the AOIs. By the end of the day, we finished 4 four people and an "outline" of the 5th person. So including the 5th person, we have two more people to go. But, alas, those two people looked at the gallery the longest. Haah...

Anyways, while I was working on the AOIs, Maria (with a bit of my help) worked on analyzing the data that is currently available (we don't have all the data until we finish the AOIs). We did some 1-proportion z-test, 2-sample t-test, linear regressions, et cetera (for the tests, we used a 5% significance level). One result we found was pretty surprising: with a P-Value of .0134, we were able to have convincing evidence that the true proportion of people who likes the painting that best fits their mood is greater than (1/12) (which is the expected proportion when choosing at pictures random).

And someone took my plastic box that I brought my in today. Ah well, I just hope it's back there tomorrow.

7/22

Today was a rather uneventful day. Nate and I (Maria has gone to a wedding) were working on processing our data for our experiment (me continuong the AOIs) when we got kicked out of the room since someone had to do an experiment. Unfortunately, the tools to process our data was only in that room, so we couldn't really do anything. Thus, I started working on a calculus book I brought.

Then there was lunch. It was good.

And so we went back to check if the experiment was done. It was not. I continued doing calculus. And that was basically the day.

Sometime during the day, I went to ask Emily how important were knowing the trigonometric derivatives for calculus. I suck at memorizing, so I hoped she would say it wasn't very important. She said it was very important.

7/21

Today was a blur of events. ...I feel like listing them today:
1.) Morning meeting. I confirmed to bring hamburger (not hotdog) buns.
2.) Continued getting experiment data.
3.) Went to lunch with all the interns to union place. I brought lunch (a muffin) and then bought french fries.
4.) Went back to the AOIs.
5.) Went to professor Nate to talk about mathematical modeling.
6.) Went back to work on the AOIs.
7.) Went home.

Maria and I finished another person today. About a third of the way through the third person. Nate (not the professor) worked on some code that can make our process quicker.

And that's it. The blueberry muffin looked like a lot in the morning, so I didn't pack anything else (plus I was just grabbing something from the refrigerator). Luckily, I had money with me to buy some fries.