<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 22:04, Eric Momsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric.momsen@gmail.com">eric.momsen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Wolf Bergenheim<br>
<<a href="mailto:wolf%2Bgrass@bergenheim.net">wolf+grass@bergenheim.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Eric!<br>
><br>
> It might help us in trying to classify you if you could tell a bit about<br>
> your programming experience. What languages are you comfortable with? I see<br>
<br>
</div>So far I have been using mostly java. I wrote a small implementation<br>
for a pattern mining algorithm in R, and will be doing a little prolog<br>
this semester. Years ago I helped set up a data transfer/validation<br>
system ( Oracle database <-> visual basic <-> website), but those<br>
skills are pretty rusty now. I certainly expect to learn more<br>
languages.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hmm If you are most strong in Java I'd recommend looking at uDig (<a href="http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/HACK/Summer+of+Code">http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/HACK/Summer+of+Code</a>), since GRASS is C and Python. It might be a better match.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
> that you are interested in data mining, which is unfortunately something I<br>
> know very little about... Did you see any ideas which interested you? You<br>
<br>
</div>The first project for animating raster/(and possibly vector) time<br>
series data was interesting, as well as a number of the imagery<br>
topics.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Cool, You should probably think about more than one topic and maybe prepare several applications.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">
> can of course also come up with your own project. Is there for instance some<br>
> data mining module missing from GRASS? That could be interesting, especially<br>
> if you prepare a good solid proposal for it.<br>
<br>
</div>I was actually hoping to get farther along with my own research to be<br>
able to (selfishly) propose something directly helpful to my work. (I<br>
do understand the goal is the code, but if I could meet both goals...)<br>
So far I seem to be stuck on the pre-processing side of things. I<br>
will touch base with my adviser again next week to see if we can come<br>
up with something interesting to propose. If we do come up with<br>
something, should I sketch the idea here first? Is someone available<br>
to mentor?<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div> --Wolf</div><div><br></div></div>