2017-06-08

Minutes

Group

Suggested to have pre-scheduled presentations.

Selecting a presenter by round-robin, random, voting? Decided on random, with a conversation with the willing presenter on the topic. Will announce the topic on the mailing-list in advance. Agreed.

Need structured leadership at this point? Decided against.

Changing date/time? Will look into this.

Home electrical use

Nick wanted some guidance about exploring electricity use by home appliances. Cory pointed him to a dataset on UCI. Talked about what kind of measurement granularity would be needed to disentagle appliances' usage.

Staying up on latest papers

arXiv has RSS feeds (and a Stats topic). R-Bloggers. Andrew Gelman's blog (lead developer on Stan language).

Some of these are like firehoses. How to filter through it? We could write a machine-learning algorithm to do that.... Cory might give this a shot and share.

Any interesting readings?

David shared: http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/04/fitting-rational-functions-with-lm.html, https://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2017/5/9/kullback-leibler-divergence-explained

Next Time

2017-07-13T12:00
Nick will present on home appliance electrical use