Fall '20 planning

Meeting Info

• Date: Sep 2, 2020
• Time: 12 pm
• Location: Jitsi

Fall ‘20 Planning

Notes:

• How can we use the virtual format to our advantage?
  • Code demos, collaborative hacking, etc.
• More emphasis on short talks (or just discussion topics) that don’t require much preparation on the part of the speaker
• Possible “anchor” for the semester: playing with data from UIUC’s COVID-19 Testing Dashboard
  • less involved than last semester’s project, basically a fall-back hacking project when we don’t have other material to discuss
  • data is exportable, and maybe we can scrape it?
  • possible approaches: visualization, fitting, simulations
• General proposal: 1-2 discussion topics or lightning talks per meeting, then use rest of time for hacking (COVID data?).
• Switching to Zoom