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sallyblockchain / Coursera-Regression-Models

Repo for Coursera.com online course: Regression Models
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Coursera solution posted in public #1

Closed cklopfenstein closed 8 years ago

cklopfenstein commented 9 years ago

Hi Xiaodan -

Maybe you didn't know this, but we are not supposed to post solutions to Coursera projects in public forums. (Technically, it violates the honor code). Some people in my class seem to have copied your solution for the Regression Models project. I'm sure that's not what you intended.

best regards, Chris Klopfenstein

sallyblockchain commented 8 years ago

Well, I took this course a long long time ago and since we needed to do the peer assessment, we had to put it in a public Github repo so that other students could click on the link and evaluate it. But I didn't put any project solutions to "public forums".

cklopfenstein commented 8 years ago

Hi -

Yeah, there is some confusion in those JHU courses on what should be posted on GitHub, policy might have changed from when you took the course til when I did. But I just wanted to let you know - of my 4 peer assessments for that course (by now awhile back), 2 were more or less identical, and also (almost) identical to your GitHub file. (Search on 'regression models cousera', - or something - turned it up near the top of the list). But no harm done... in the end I didn't even mark them off (since I didn't have proof of plagiarism), but gave it to them in my comments.

best regards,

Chris Klopfenstein

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Sally Zhang notifications@github.com wrote:

Well, I took this course a long long time ago and since we needed to do the peer assessment, we had to put it in a public Github repo so that other students could click on the link and evaluate it. But I didn't put any project solutions to "public forums".

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Xiaodan/Coursera-Regression-Models/issues/1#issuecomment-147216023 .

sallyblockchain commented 8 years ago

Hi Chris,

Thanks for letting me know this issue. :( I know once the codes are public on Github for peer assessments, there will be people who will try to search for possible solutions for sure. But it's already an online course and is totally voluntary. I feel bad when people just do copy and paste only for getting the certificates.

Best, Sally.

philipmat commented 8 years ago

I just want to say that your report helped me a great deal understanding the subject and while I took inspiration from it, I arrived at a different model altogether. And yes, I've seen a few reports that copied yours almost word for word - I guess imitation...

Anyway, thank you so very much for your pioneering effort! :+1: