Lecture 13

October 15, 2019

For today

• 1. Turn in Notebook 7

  2. Read another team's draft and write a review

  3. Prepare for a quiz on Chapters 7 and 8

Today

• 1. Quiz

  2. Review draft reports

  3. Notebook 7

For next time:

• 1. Turn in Notebook 8

  2. Work on your project (final report due in one week)

Speaking of the project

A note from the past...

From: Ryan Louie

To: downey, jason.woodard

Hi Allen and Jason,

I hope the Fall semester is off to a great start. Are you both teaching complexity science this year together? I was reminded of the class this past week when a professor from Columbia University contacted me about my final project on Gentrification. It turned out his student had cited our work, and used the code to run her own experiments for a class project. This was the first time I’ve been asked about code and a report for a past project. Especially for a project I didn’t intend to be publicized.

Thought it would be a funny anecdote for you to share if you wanted to tell people to have excellent reports, notebooks, and code even on a class project on Github. The professor only looked up “Gentification” and projects using Python on Github to find us!

Ah looking back at the email, the professor was Chris Wiggins. He happens to be the Chief Data Scientist at the New York Times - neat!

Best,

Ryan Louie

Toward that end, I strongly recommend you use GitHub pages to make your final report look good.

1) Go to the Setting tab on GitHub and turn on Pages.

2) If the URL of your report is

https://github.com/AllenDowney/CompStats/blob/master/tutorial.md

The URL of the HTML version is

https://allendowney.github.io/CompStats/tutorial.html