Mentoring NYU Students for IDS-DRR project

[d-saikrishna]

Background: https://github.com/CivicDataLab/data-pillar/issues/71

A student team from NYU has selected our IDS-DRR project as part of their Capstone project. @d-saikrishna and @jeenogeorge will mentor the students.

Student team:

1. Bo Long
2. Zeyu
3. Qiuyi

I have organized a introductory call on September 27 9AM IST. I will use the this issue to track all the conversation and work that we do as part of this collaboration.

Google Drive

Call Notes

[d-saikrishna]

Kickstarter Call - September 27 9AM

Agenda

@apoorv74 @jeenogeorge please make changes as necessary

1. Introductions [5 min]
2. Skillset mapping and time commitment - What is the team capable of doing? How many hours per week? How long is their commitment? [10 min]
3. Introduce our datasets and the Problem statement. [20 min]
4. Initial ideas the mentees have about the project - before we tell our approach - we can give them a week to brainstorm separately so that they are not influenced by our approach. [10 min]
5. Introduce them to our Project management tools - mostly Github? - this repo is open - so they can create a branch in this? [5 min]
6. Plan cadence of meetings, timings and other logistical issues. [5min]
7. Open [5 min]

[d-saikrishna]

Datasets introduction Oct5

• [x] Introduced datasets and modelling we have done so far.
• [x] Should add team to Rocketchat.
• [x] Should share presentation
• [x] Invite Meenu to the next call for a detailed KT on Data Science effort.
• [ ] Should decide if the team will co-work with us on creating Flood DRR index or should we select a small module for the project.

[d-saikrishna]

Note by Meenu on data model selection: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10g_ol2JcG0aAh1rYUUv8Pav2fFZZ5mc6x4hyIxpdQW0/edit

[d-saikrishna]

The team will write a paper before December 11. Requested them to write a blog summarizing their paper findings, more like an executive summary.

Github contribution - Link

Meenu asked for Random Forest representation that the team used - we can try to use it in our modeling effort.

[d-saikrishna]

Paper: Link

Blog for review: Link

Can close this issue once the the blog is published

[d-saikrishna]

Blog published

https://medium.com/civicdatalab/navigating-the-flood-vulnerability-data-driven-analysis-for-assams-revenue-circles-32f31f53dc6b