MacKay Minutes 2016/06/02

MacKay website, and minutes

How did we do on our todo list?

• Andy
  • Make web directories for Laura and Madison
  • Get Laura climate data for Sydney, 1890-1924
  • Take Steve's numerical univariate, and convert to multivariate version of estimator
  • Get SVD reference for Laura and Madison
  • Help Laura with missing data issues for climate normals

• Laura:
  • Continue with Climate normals
  • Compare new Sydney data with old stuff
    • Same!

• Madison:
  • What's the relationship between soil temperature and air temperature?
    • Hard to find something that's generalized.... Specific to plant type
    • Models for different areas
  • When estimate data comes in for 1922 and 1923, get small multiple images to add to the rest
    • For next week

• Steve
  • Mathematica example code to dump latex
  • Figure out how to do a numerical univariate optimization in Mathematica
    • Steve's comments about his numerical optimizer

The Readings

• Jim Inhofe is the one credited with throwing a snow ball on the Senate floor to disprove global warming.
• John McCain, who said that George Bush was "MIA" on climate change back in 2005, is now MIA on climate change....

In the News

• Donald Trump's energy policy

Todo for next week

• Andy
  • Make web directories for Laura and Madison
    • Check to see if ftp.norsemathology.org is working. I found my old email to the group, and sent it back around.
  • Get Laura climate data for Port Hastings, 1890-1924
  • Check Steve's numerical estimator for flexibility
  • Get SVD reference for Laura and Madison
    • My SVD page for my linear algebra class
    • a paper my dad and I wrote on "skinning" a matrix
    • a crude copy of my dad's paper cited in the Lay chapter
    • Do an example of what we want to carry out using the 1901 data, as well as one of Madison's missing data interpolated cases

• Laura:
  • Continue with Climate normals -- plots?
    • Continue putting R code on mathstat. Good start, having figured out how to handle the missing values.
  • Compare new Port Hastings data with old stuff

• Madison:
  • What's the relationship between soil temperature and air temperature?
    • Look specifically for mathematical models of soil temperature built on air temp and (possibly) precipitation
    • Put interesting references and quotes into bibliography section of our website.
  • Compute estimated data for missing values from 1922 and 1923, and then
    • get small multiple images to add to the rest for next week

• Steve
  • off the hook!:)

Next meeting

Thursday, 6/9, noon