Meetings and/or updates this week

[choldgraf]

Hey folks - In lieu of meetings this week, I'd like an update of where we are with respect to the current projects. For any of these, if you guys wanna meet to chat about things then I am happy to do so.

@nlin3330 and @dariusmehri - I see that you've pushed some commits to the repository recently. Is the code/notebooks in a format that would be worth taking a look at?

@juanshishido - Did you see the notes from the last brainstorm meeting? Should be some suggestions / goals for wrapping up in there. Let me know what progress you're making.

@kaiweitan - Was it clear what we were discussing at the meeting last Friday regarding blanket POs? Let me know if you'd like to talk about analyses / coding stuff to finish this.

Only a couple weeks left everybody, let's finish strong.

[dariusmehri]

we could but nick and i don't have new results to show yet, perhaps at the end of this week, is the final date may 5 during the bids fair?

darius

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Chris Holdgraf notifications@github.com wrote:

Hey folks - In lieu of meetings this week, I'd like an update of where we are with respect to the current projects.

@nlin3330 https://github.com/nlin3330 and @dariusmehri https://github.com/dariusmehri - I see that you've pushed some commits to the repository recently. Is the code/notebooks in a format that would be worth taking a look at?

@juanshishido https://github.com/juanshishido - Did you see the notes from the last brainstorm meeting? Should be some suggestions / goals for wrapping up in there. Let me know what progress you're making.

@kaiweitan https://github.com/kaiweitan - Was it clear what we were discussing at the meeting last Friday regarding blanket POs? Let me know if you'd like to talk about analyses / coding stuff to finish this.

Only a couple weeks left everybody, let's finish strong.

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Darius Mehri Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology University of California, Berkeley

[choldgraf]

OK sounds good, keep me updated. Yes, final date for analyses will be first week of May. We can put together some figures / explanations for the fair, and then focus on documentation from then on out.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:43 AM, dariusmehri notifications@github.com wrote:

we could but nick and i don't have new results to show yet, perhaps at the end of this week, is the final date may 5 during the bids fair?

darius

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Chris Holdgraf <notifications@github.com

wrote:

Hey folks - In lieu of meetings this week, I'd like an update of where we are with respect to the current projects.

@nlin3330 https://github.com/nlin3330 and @dariusmehri https://github.com/dariusmehri - I see that you've pushed some commits to the repository recently. Is the code/notebooks in a format that would be worth taking a look at?

@juanshishido https://github.com/juanshishido - Did you see the notes from the last brainstorm meeting? Should be some suggestions / goals for wrapping up in there. Let me know what progress you're making.

@kaiweitan https://github.com/kaiweitan - Was it clear what we were discussing at the meeting last Friday regarding blanket POs? Let me know if you'd like to talk about analyses / coding stuff to finish this.

Only a couple weeks left everybody, let's finish strong.

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Darius Mehri Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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[nlin3330]

Basically I'm trying to create a function that automatically subsets the data by periods of time (total time/some number) and does a bunch of calculations/creates a graph. However, the data doesn't look consistent as some periods of time have no data so that is one bug that I still need to fix.

[testchange]

@choldgraf

yea we are meeting at 4pm to discuss about the agenda for TTC. I have already looked through a couple of efficiency metrics.

[choldgraf]

Perfect - let me know how the meeting goes

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@choldgraf https://github.com/choldgraf

yea we are meeting at 330pm to discuss about the agenda for TTC. I have already looked through a couple of efficiency metrics.

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[testchange]

Sorry for the confusion. I meant to have a meeting with you 4pm at BIDS. Are you available during that time?

[choldgraf]

oh I thought you meant you and @juanshishido...I can meet at 4pm at BIDS

[choldgraf]

@juanshishido are you available then?

[choldgraf]

hey @agcinsf, just had a meeting with @kaiweitan to come up with ways to suss out Blanket POs. Do you have information about the size of various departments on campus? We had a hard time finding public information about that but maybe there's internal information sources along those lines?

[juanshishido]

Hey @choldgraf and @kaiweitan. Thought the meeting was scheduled for tomorrow. I was not on campus today.

[dariusmehri]

are we having a meeting tomorrow?

d.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Juan Shishido notifications@github.com wrote:

Hey @choldgraf https://github.com/choldgraf and @kaiweitan https://github.com/kaiweitan. Thought the meeting was scheduled for tomorrow. I was not on campus today.

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[juanshishido]

That's what's on my calendar. BIDS - Group meeting 3:30-4:30.

[agcinsf]

It should all be on CalAnswers, the campus BI dashboard tool. I will try and pull out the data tomorrow.

Ac

On Apr 15, 2015, at 8:05 PM, Chris Holdgraf notifications@github.com wrote:

hey @agcinsf, just had a meeting with @kaiweitan to come up with ways to suss out Blanket POs. Do you have information about the size of various departments on campus? We had a hard time finding public information about that but maybe there's internal information sources along those lines?

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[dariusmehri]

ok, please send a number so i can call in, darius

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Juan Shishido notifications@github.com wrote:

That's what's on my calendar. BIDS - Group meeting 3:30-4:30.

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[choldgraf]

Ah - I think that we got thrown off a bit because of the re-scheduled group meeting last week. My vote is to keep it with sub-groups as-needed, rather than meeting as a full group. @juanshishido, if you'd like to chat about the project I'm happy to meet tomorrow. @dariusmehri and @nlin3330, you are welcome to join if you like but we can have a group meeting next week.

[dariusmehri]

group meeting next week, we should have results then, darius

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Chris Holdgraf notifications@github.com wrote:

Ah - I think that we got thrown off a bit because of the re-scheduled group meeting last week. My vote is to keep it with sub-groups as-needed, rather than meeting as a full group. @juanshishido https://github.com/juanshishido, if you'd like to chat about the project I'm happy to meet tomorrow. @dariusmehri https://github.com/dariusmehri and @nlin3330 https://github.com/nlin3330, you are welcome to join if you like but we can have a group meeting next week.

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[choldgraf]

sounds good - see you next week then. @juanshishido, let me know what you'd like to do

[juanshishido]

It'd be good to touch base, @choldgraf. Maybe just a 30-minute meeting. See you tomorrow. Thanks!

[choldgraf]

Sounds great, see you there.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Juan Shishido notifications@github.com wrote:

It'd be good to touch base, @choldgraf https://github.com/choldgraf. Maybe just a 30-minute meeting. See you tomorrow. Thanks!

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[choldgraf]

Hey all - I'm looking through some of the latest commits now. Sounds like we are making some progress on function-ifying the code that we've created so far. Once we've created functions, we should put them into python modules rather than keep them in the ipython notebooks. The notebooks should just be for prototyping things, and then for demonstrating code / scripting.

To put a function in a module, you just need to create a file that ends in .py. Then, put it in a folder with a file called __init__.py. Finally, add that folder's parent to your $PYTHONPATH, or within a python session, you can run:

import sys
sys.path.append('path/to/folder/parent')

Now, you can define functions in that file and import them.

For example, for me, I need to add ~/gdrive/github/personal/bids_purchasing/ to my path. Within the bids_purchasing folder is the "script" folder that we care about. After I do this, I can do from script import network and it will import everything inside network.py as a module.

I've added an __init__.py file to our script folder, as well as empty .py files for network stuff and time clustering stuff (what I'm working on). Let's start to add functions there, and import from them in the notebooks.