Last week's accomplishments

Objectives from last week

I spent 12.2 hours on the steer torque paper work instead of the 9.5 I projected.

• [3 hours] Finish table in the steer torque paper. Update the spreadsheet and insert into the latex doc. -- Done: https://github.com/moorepants/steer-torque-manuscript/commit/24b2d4419cf5d052706c944a12f54fbc91eea9be, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XDN2wXa7abgd_W1jIejA62ITD0qSIUIqmqNJnC0qpbQ/pubhtml
• [2 hours] Add in torque wrench section into the steer torque paper. -- Done: https://github.com/moorepants/steer-torque-manuscript
• [0.5 hour] Make a figshare dataset for the torque wrench experiments csv file. -- Done: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1167497
• [4 hours] Send Mont a first draft of the steer torque paper for review (by Saturday). -- Done: https://github.com/moorepants/steer-torque-manuscript/releases/tag/first-draft

I spent 3.6 hours on the bicycle data paper which was under the 4 I projected. I didn't do very complete jobs of these tasks though.

• [1 hour] Write and introduction to the bicycle data paper. -- Done: https://github.com/moorepants/bicycle-data-paper
• [1 hour] Write a section about the raw data in the bicycle data paper. -- Started: https://github.com/moorepants/bicycle-data-paper
• [2 hours] Add README's and any other needed data to the davis instrumented bicycle raw data sets and make public. -- 80% done: created an rst file with the trial data info, need to add calibration data info.

Planning took 5 hours instead of 4.5, but I also spent 3.4 hours giving the tutorial and following up with a recap.

• [4 hours] Prepare materials for the IEEE open source night (by Friday). -- Done: https://github.com/moorepants/intro-to-open-source and https://github.com/moorepants/ieee-tic-tac-toe.
• [0.5 hour] Send out installation instructions for IEEE open source night (by Thursday). -- Done: see https://github.com/moorepants/intro-to-open-source for installation instructions.

This only took 0.6 hrs instead of 2.

• [2 hours] Pick a talk topic for the seminar and draft an outline of the talk. -- Done: https://github.com/moorepants/csu-fall-hmc-seminar

I spent 1.8 hrs on writing, a bit over 1.

• [1 hour] Write system description section in the inverted pendulum paper. -- Done: see https://github.com/csu-hmc/inverted-pendulum-sys-id-paper

I spent 8.4 hours writing this code and instead of 5.

• [5 hours] Implement a ufuncify for vectorized matrix evaluations for the inverted pendulum direct id code. The compile times currently are prohibitive for more than two links. -- Done: https://github.com/csu-hmc/inverted-pendulum-sys-id/commit/000f2c7c860627c8ab4e24816fb13820c2fe16bc

This took 1.5 hours instead of 1.

• [1 hour] Write meta data description in perturbed walking data paper. -- Done: https://github.com/csu-hmc/perturbed-data-paper/commit/2b87b4867318d966afd34993476bc0c294f6c8fb

It looks like I spent 33.1 hours on an estimated 27.0 hours of work, so I underestimated by about 18% of the actual time. The more interesting thing is that I worked 14.7 more hours on things that were not on the objectives list. So I spent an extra 45% of the actual objectives time doing other stuff.

Other things I did

• Github: 35 commits, 3 merged pull requests, 11 issues added.
• [3.4 hours] Led a tutorial for ~30 students on collaborative software development and open source and wrote a recap at https://github.com/moorepants/intro-to-open-source/issues/1.
• Got myself into a bet with Dr. Rashidi about what makes a rattleback reverse.
• Discussed Ton's and my idea about a direct collocation tool with Luke to see if he wants to come out to work on it.

My time graph for the past week

Last week's issues

• [1 hour] Make a blog post explaining how I setup the Plone offsite backups. -- Ran out of time, will skip this unless I find myself with some time.
• [0.5 hour] Make sure that the hmc.csuohio.edu offsite backup can be restored. -- Ran out of time, will check this week.
• [0.5 hour] Try to upload the davis instrumented bicycle h5 file (with raw and processed data) to Figshare. -- Done, ran our of time, will do this week.
• [2 hours] Draft a plan/outline for a new research statement for prof applications. -- Too low on the priority list, will do this week.

This week's objectives

I'm taking off Friday and will in Louisville for the weekend, so I'm probably overestimating what I can do this week. The estimate is about ~23 hrs, so according to last week it will take me ~27 hrs to to the work and I'll spend 11 more hours doing other stuff, putting me at ~38 hrs of actual work time.

Lab Stuff

• [0.5 hr] Make sure that the hmc.csuohio.edu offsite backup can be restored.
• [6 hr] Create a presentation for the lab seminar on the 17th.

Perturbed Walking Data Paper

• [1 hr] Write draft of data processing software section.

Parameter Identification with Direct Collocation Paper

• [1 hr] Add a section about how the direct collocation is implemented with a backward Euler integration assumption.

Parameter Identification with Direct Collocation Source Code

• [2 hr] Add the ability to specify constants and arrays explicitly in ufuncify_matrix to avoid creating arrays of constants in the jacobian evaluation function.
• [1 hr] Move the indice computation out of the jacobian evaluation computation.

Bicycle Data Paper

• [1 hr] Finish raw data README.
• [2 hr] Create calibration data README.
• [0.5 hr] Try to upload the davis instrumented bicycle h5 file (with raw and processed data) to Figshare.

Bicycle Steer Torque Paper

• [1 hr] Change R plots to a prettier ggplot2 version.
• [1 hr] Improve the matplotlib plots to make them prettier.
• [0.5 hr] Add in a good photo of the actual steer torque design to go along with the CAD model.
• [0.5 hr] Figure out the best citation for Kageyama's design.

Yeadon Paper

• [0.25 hr] Commit latest draft from the journal to Git.

Software Carpentry

• [1 hr] Respond to Nick Hermez.
• [1 hr] Decide on a date, confer with Ahmet, and let Software Carpentry know.
• [0.5 hr] Make a list of tasks that need to be done so I can divvy them up.

Job Search

• [2 hours] Draft a plan/outline for a new research statement for prof applications.