On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 22:04, Eric Momsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Wolf Bergenheim > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Eric! > > > > It might help us in trying to classify you if you could tell a bit about > > your programming experience. What languages are you comfortable with? I > see > > So far I have been using mostly java. I wrote a small implementation > for a pattern mining algorithm in R, and will be doing a little prolog > this semester. Years ago I helped set up a data transfer/validation > system ( Oracle database <-> visual basic <-> website), but those > skills are pretty rusty now. I certainly expect to learn more > languages. > > Hmm If you are most strong in Java I'd recommend looking at uDig ( http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/HACK/Summer+of+Code), since GRASS is C and Python. It might be a better match. > > that you are interested in data mining, which is unfortunately something > I > > know very little about... Did you see any ideas which interested you? You > > The first project for animating raster/(and possibly vector) time > series data was interesting, as well as a number of the imagery > topics. > > Cool, You should probably think about more than one topic and maybe prepare several applications. > > can of course also come up with your own project. Is there for instance > some > > data mining module missing from GRASS? That could be interesting, > especially > > if you prepare a good solid proposal for it. > > I was actually hoping to get farther along with my own research to be > able to (selfishly) propose something directly helpful to my work. (I > do understand the goal is the code, but if I could meet both goals...) > So far I seem to be stuck on the pre-processing side of things. I > will touch base with my adviser again next week to see if we can come > up with something interesting to propose. If we do come up with > something, should I sketch the idea here first? Is someone available > to mentor? > > There might be someone willing to mentor. That remains to be seen. Would your adviser be interested in helping to co-mentor you, along with a GRASS mentor? It would definitely be a good idea to discuss your ideas here first, it will improve the chances of getting selected. --Wolf
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