Difference between revisions of "CS382:Topics Matrix"

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=== Make Sure This Goes Somewhere/Everywhere ===
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=== Thoughts ===
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Some of these should go somewhere, and some of these should be in every unit.
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* What data do I need to collect, how do I collect it accurately, and then how do I build it
 
* What data do I need to collect, how do I collect it accurately, and then how do I build it
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** Perhaps one unit where they have to go out and collect data to see how hard it really is
 
* Data collection: sensor nets, lasers
 
* Data collection: sensor nets, lasers

Revision as of 11:44, 2 February 2009

This is meant to be a rough draft of an idea Charlie and I talked about: that we should have a n-by-n matrix of different ideas that we want to make sure we hit. Since an n-by-n matrix is hard to display (especially on a wiki!) it turned into a list instead. Once this is finished, we should make sure that at least one unit addresses each one of these topics.

Initial "dimensions" of the matrix:

Scientific Disciplines

  • Biology
  • Chemistry
  • Physics
  • Geology (earthquakes)
  • Environmental science
  • One of the social sciences

Potentially:

  • Astronomy

Scientific Tools

  • Equation-based modeling
  • Agent-based modeling: Netlogo or AgentSheets
  • Systems-based modeling: Vensim
  • Visualization/visual modeling
  • Mashups and Google Earth

Potentially

  • SecondLife or OpenSim

Foundation Skills

  • Creating a graph
  • Interpreting a graph
  • Basic statistics
  • Estimation
  • Parameter sweep

Potentially

  • Building a physical model

Thoughts

Some of these should go somewhere, and some of these should be in every unit.

  • What data do I need to collect, how do I collect it accurately, and then how do I build it
    • Perhaps one unit where they have to go out and collect data to see how hard it really is
  • Data collection: sensor nets, lasers