Jeeves on Nyghtowl

Jeeves is Talking!

Sun, 30 Mar 2014 14:57:47 +0000

Coolest moment this week was when I figured out that I just needed to add one line of code to my program to get my computer to talk in my Jeeves project (thus video above).

This past week was all about fixing stuff, fine tuning, iterating and putting together a presentation and peripheral stuff for demo day which will be Thurs. Of course there is always more I could and would do, but I’ve been continually shifting priorities based on time and end goal.

Zipfian Project Week 1 & Closing the Loop

Sun, 23 Mar 2014 21:15:18 +0000

One week down for our final projects and one week left to go. This has definitely been the most fun and rewarding weeks so far because I’ve been connecting the dots in more ways than one.

Everyone talks about getting your minimum viable product done (mvp) when we do final projects like this. Thankfully I had enough experience with Hackbright to know what that meant as well as how to approach it. I got my full product pipeline built between last Sat and yesterday. I’ve tested that it works (well pseudo works) and feel really good to see the emails get pulled in, analyzed and if the condition is true then I get a text on my phone. Now I really need to fix my actual classifier because it is just not that accurate.

Begin with the End

Sun, 16 Mar 2014 22:18:20 +0000

So we are officially kicking-off personal projects for the next 2 weeks. It’s been a bit of a process for all the students figuring out what each of us wanted to do and finalizing it but we got there.

Last WeekIt was a review week. We went back over some concepts that will be valuable for projects as well as when we go through interviews like classifiers and distributions. We also worked to determine and finalize our projects and then we spent two full days on final assessments. We had 2 different data science case studies that required working through the full process from getting the data to providing some type of recommendation/report. We also worked in teams on sample interview questions to review over additional class content. The last day there was a little bit of mutiny and we really didn’t get much done on the assessment. Most people were starting to think projects at that point.