It's a little frightening to start Independent Study. Instead of having assignments spoon fed to me, I have to have one assignment and focus on it throughout the year. For me, this will be difficult. I like to knock out entire assignments at once, to finish coding in sitting. Unfortunately, an Independent Study class does not work that way. I'll need to have a way to stay focused on one assignment, even without guidance and prodding from a teacher. So here's the plan.
My project is an extension of some work I did over the summer with a graduate student, where we mapped death data from flu in the USA, and tried to predict where the flu would strike next using a variety of models. The first was simply picking providers by trying to maximize the R² value between the death data nationally and the model built using regional death data from certain providers. The goal was to then build different models and try to compare them to the R² model.
In this class, I'm planning on continuing to do that same work, using class time to write and finish code. Currently, I've been working on the function that analyzes the different networks and determines their effectiveness based on R² values. It's an interesting project, and one I hope to finish soon.
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