= 2017-06-08 =
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== 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