Homework 1 - Team 2

Retrospective:

Good: We were able to communicate easily in email correspondence and the team set up a meeting time in the library. When we got working everything fell together and we were able to accomplish the project with relative ease.

Bad: Email correspondence is not the quickest and one student did not see the meeting request, so we are starting text group chats for future projects.

Ugly: Learning how to use the wiki was time-consuming, and we did not assign tasks to team members or outline goals clearly. Our presentation ran long, so it’s clear we did not practice enough

Do Differently: We will meet early (in person or zoom) to discuss project goals and individual tasks so group members can work on them in their own time. We will also set follow-up meetings to make sure everyone is on time and so we can answer questions that may arise.

Data Scientists:

Claude Shannon: was an American mathematician and electrical engineer. He is most credited for laying the foundations for digital circuits and information theory. After publishing his master’s thesis (which outlined practical digital circuit design) he went on to work at Bell Labs. During his time at Bell Labs he also published a paper on information theory, A Mathematical Theory of Communication. He is credited with a lot of important research and authored multiple papers in the field of electrical engineering and telecommunications. However, his research into information theory is still relevant and has been applied to various other topics such as physiology. After working for Bell, he became a professor at MIT, his alma mater.

Caitlin Smallwood: is the VP of Data Science and Analytics for Netflix. She specializes in analytics, measurement and prediction, experimentation science, and algorithm research for all parts of Netflix. She works in and leads many teams that have solved problems such as Netflix’s personalization algorithm for entertainment recommendations, predicting the popularity of new Netflix movies and TV shows to inform content and marketing investments, optimizing studio production operations; researching new experimentation techniques, optimizing the delivery and quality of internet streaming, and driving key metrics and reporting. She got her B.S. in mathematics from The College of William and Mary and her M.S. in Operations Research from Stanford.

Group Members:

Cole McKinley, Travis Myers, Abishek Agarwal, Nik Pearce, Evan McGinnis

Link to presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1frlXpdH8SEiM_Vaq2ZIJi9mCmp1oLZDBTpTTOIyupm4/edit?usp=sharing