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Open ChadFibke opened 6 years ago

ChadFibke commented 6 years ago

DO NOT copy Jenny Bryan's examples without any credit to her. Many of your examples are taken directly from her github and some words are changed. This is boarder line plagiarism. I will be talking to Vincenzo about this.

acheng-ubc commented 6 years ago

I'm sorry, I may have interpreted the activity as going by Jenny's cheatsheet on join functions but with my own dataset. I did spend a lot of time making my own dataset and went through each of those functions myself. Was this not okay? @vincenzocoia I would also say a lot more than just "some words" were changed....for the first activity all of the descriptions after each code-block were my own words, and for the second activity there was considerable work done in creating the dataset and applying Jenny's examples to my own dataset and describing what happens with each join function.

acheng-ubc commented 6 years ago

If this was not okay, I would love to be given the chance to redo this assignment as it was definitely not my intention to plagiarise any work.

vincenzocoia commented 6 years ago

Hi @acheng-ubc:

Verdict: deemed not a case of plagiarism.

I think the problem here is that you used the same data as Jenny, and further, that the dataset is too narrow to allow for doing something different than Jenny. There aren't many unique ways to run gather and spread on the data, especially that adheres to good coding style, since the amount of code required is very little. In short, I think this code was written by @acheng-ubc, and that the commonalities given the limited amount of required code are happenstance.

@ChadFibke is correct in that the proper way to proceed would have been to give attribution to Jenny. @acheng-ubc cited the lecture notes, which indirectly leads to Jenny, but the citation should have been direct.

Even with proper attribution, the data used as an example is not very enlightening, since it was covered in class.

acheng-ubc commented 6 years ago

Hi @vincenzocoia :

Thank you for taking the time to look into this! I will definitely try harder to be more creative and original for future assignments in STAT547, and will take care to give direct citations when referencing other work.

Sorry everyone for all the trouble!