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Class presentations #16

Open jstac opened 8 years ago

jstac commented 8 years ago

I would like to get presentations by class participants started soon --- ideally from March 11. The presentations are not long and don't have to be formal. The main idea is to teach us something that you find interesting and you believe is potentially useful. Some suggestions are here:

https://github.com/jstac/quantecon_nyu_2016#notes-on-class-presentations

Please send me an email to discuss topic and date. I won't continue to remind you about this course requirement so it's up to you to schedule your talk.

vgregory757 commented 8 years ago

Hi John,

Can I present sometime in early April (maybe April 1)? I was thinking of talking about either the machine learning library, or I found this cool plotting library that allows you to make dynamic interactive charts: https://plot.ly/python/

Also, what does the content of the presentation need to be like? Just explaining main features or also presenting some application that you've put together?

Thanks, Victoria

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:18 PM, John Stachurski notifications@github.com wrote:

I would like to get presentations by class participants started soon --- ideally from March 11. The presentations are not long and don't have to be formal. The main idea is to teach us something that you find interesting and you believe is potentially useful. Some suggestions are here:

https://github.com/jstac/quantecon_nyu_2016#notes-on-class-presentations

Please send me an email to discuss topic and date. I won't continue to remind you about this course requirement so it's up to you to schedule your talk.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/jstac/quantecon_nyu_2016/issues/16.

jstac commented 8 years ago

@vgregory757 Great, let's set your presentation for April 1.

That plot.ly library seems like a good topic. I don't know much about it and I personally would like to know more.

There's no hard and fast rule for presentations, but generally you should go by what's interesting for you and at least potentially useful for others in the class. For example, since we'll discuss Matplotlib through this lecture

http://quant-econ.net/py/matplotlib.html

one idea would be to show how you would approach producing those graphs in plot.ly. More generally, you might like to compare its functionality and approach to what we can find in Matplotlib.

This is just a suggestion.

I also think its good if we take an academic and critical approach to the tools we discuss, and state not just good points but also the things that we perceive to be weaknesses. For example, does it have decent LaTeX integration? Might we regret investing time in learning it if we later discover that it isn't sufficiently customizable? (For me it's also helpful to know if I should cross a given tool off my list of things to invest time in, even if it looks good on first impression.)

jstac commented 8 years ago

Regarding class presentations, I've made a schedule so please use it to help you choose a date and topic.

https://github.com/jstac/quantecon_nyu_2016/wiki/Presentation-Schedule

FelipeAAlves commented 8 years ago

HI John,

Can I make the presentation on Heterogeneous Agents in cont time in April 29?

Best, Felipe

jstac commented 8 years ago

@FelipeAAlves Done.

brandomagnani commented 8 years ago

Hi John, I'd like to give a presentation on April 15 about one of the scikit-learn libraries and maybe show some applications. (I was thinking about cross validation or something in the regression package with an application to stock prices, for example). Sounds good?

Best, Brando

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:01 PM, John Stachurski notifications@github.com wrote:

@FelipeAAlves https://github.com/FelipeAAlves Done.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/jstac/quantecon_nyu_2016/issues/16#issuecomment-191984857 .

Best Regards, Ildebrando Magnani

jstac commented 8 years ago

@brandomagnani Sounds good. I've put you in the schedule.

brandomagnani commented 8 years ago

Thanks! Il 03/mar/2016 19:57, "John Stachurski" notifications@github.com ha scritto:

@brandomagnani https://github.com/brandomagnani Sounds good. I've put you in the schedule.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/jstac/quantecon_nyu_2016/issues/16#issuecomment-192041979 .

jmorelli88 commented 8 years ago

Hi John, I was thinking on presenting on April 8th the Julia's version of the CompEcon package done by Spencer. I would probably combine it with some applications. Do you think that would be OK?

jstac commented 8 years ago

@jmorelli88 Yes, that sounds fine. I've put you down. Note that Alberto is presenting on Interpolations.jl on the same day.

jstac commented 8 years ago

@lt1245 @Abby27

I don't yet have you down for class presentations. Apologies if you already suggested a date and I missed it. Otherwise please choose one ASAP. You can have March 25, April 1 or May 6 (but not both of you on the same date).

We still have no one presenting on pandas. That would be a good choice. You can get other ideas from reading the course homepage.

You can see what others are presenting on here.

https://github.com/jstac/quantecon_nyu_2016/wiki/Presentation-Schedule

lt1245 commented 8 years ago

Hi John,

we have talked about it and I will present pandas next class

jstac commented 8 years ago

Thanks everyone for letting me know your time and topic. I'm looking forward to your talks.

Presentations should run for 20 minutes unless we agree otherwise, and I'll be relatively strict about time. (This is how conferences run. Please time yourself before hand so you know how long your talk is.)

Please focus on communication. These are topics we all find interesting and useful. You main job is to convey the information as clearly and effectively as you can.

Please also take an academic approach to your topic. Our job is not to promote, but rather to examine strengths and weaknesses.