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% Day 9: Reflection: Courtlistener, Homework, Projects, Knight Challenge % Raymond Yee % February 19, 2013 (http://bit.ly/wwod1309)

Agenda

  • Homework from Day 4 Graded
  • Reflecting on our Course
  • Reflection on Brian Carver's Talk
  • Knight News Challenge
  • Time to Work on Homework and Projects
  • Homework

Homework from Day 4 Graded

I've graded all the HW Day 4 notebooks (aka the 2nd assignment) that I've received and have posted the grades on bspace. Full marks = 8. I used the same basic scheme as I did for the first assignment (which was out of 4) but doubled the weight. I'm taking resubmissions until the end of this week -- my big goal is to work with you to stay on track with the class materials.

Reminder of what I do in grading

  • I glance through your notebook looking for the way you answered the questions.
  • I clear all the results.
  • I run the notebook.

Please don't alter the assertions/tests I write in. If you do, you must highlight the change you made and why.

I allow resubmissions because I want to encourage you to learn the material and because I do want dialog in the learning process.

Piazza Polls

Reflection on Brian Carver's Talk from Day 8 (Friday)

Opening the Data of the U.S. Court Systems

http://bit.ly/wwod13courtlistener

I'd like to pursue two lines of work with courtlistener:

  • building scrapers for our learning
  • correlate cases with the Wikipedia

Knight News Challenge -- let's see what's happening

  • FAQ

    • Submission (Feb. 19 - March 18)
    • Feedback (March 18 - March 29)
    • Refinement (March 29 - April 5)
    • Judging (April 5 - June)

  • "Awards can be made for any amount - $1,000 to $1,000,000. Obviously large awards are less common than smaller ones, but you should apply for what you need."

  • Inspiration phase (Feb 12-19) just closed with 176 "inspirations": https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/inspiration/

  • Submission phase open until March 18.

Projects

Project proposals deadline moved to March 8, 2013.

Homework

Account setup

For Thursday class: