Oct 31, Day 20
Agenda:
–Continue with R: Importing Data, Making Charts, Building Tables, Data Structure
R – Why Are We Doing This Again?
BuzzFeed spy planes
Peter Aldhous adds an example of his from BuzzFeed: BuzzFeed News Trained A Computer To Search For Hidden Spy Planes. This Is What We Found. Again there’s a GitHub page explaining the methods employed, and a GitHub repo with the data and an R Markdown file.
The project includes examples of abstraction (in this case, filtering) and algorithms (in this case the random forest algorithm).
Important Reference Materials
New York Times App Designer Speaking In Fayetteville on Friday
From our friend in Art, Tom Hapgood. Please spread the word to students.
New York Times Senior Mobile Product Manager Drew Cogbill (and UA alum) will present on user experience and design with apps in his position at the news organization.
All School of Art visiting designer lectures are free and open to the public with generous support provided by the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation.
The event is at 9 a.m. Nov. 2, Brewer Family Entrepreneurship Hub, 123 W. Mountain Street. Fayetteville.