Today we installed pandas and Altair (Python packages) on our laptops through Anaconda Navigator. We created our first Jupyter notebooks where we did some data wrangling and graphing, using a data set from a Stack Overflow survey. We also played with some fun data compiled from a thesis comparing captions from a 1911 book of cat images to similar cat graphics and text found on the Internet in 2007 and 2008.
We watched a livestream of the first couple of student reports from Google’s Applied Machine Learning Intensive (AMLI), a 10-week program that was just ending today. There were two programs this summer, one at Agnes Scott College and one at Scripps College (the Agnes Scott teams presented first, so we saw two of their reports). After taking CMPS 160 and CMPS 360 at Hollins this year, our students will be eligible to apply for the AMLI program in Summer 2020!
This evening Julie, Steve, and Celeste (Steve’s wife, who set up this blog for us) visited Julie’s brother and sister-in-law, Greg and Tanya Morrisett. We visited them at their new home on Roosevelt Island (between Manhattan and Queens, on the East River), where Cornell Tech is located. Greg, an expert in computer security, just became the Jack and Rilla Neafsey Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech.
