6/29/2018: gradual progress

A meeting was held last Friday, coordinated by RS

For today:

VK added more details of explanation to his graphs and sent us the latest writeup. RMS for the boosting model is a little larger than for the random forest model. Added a new graph for the RMS vs. randomly selected predictors. Random forest has better accuracy than gradient boosting for this data.

JS said he would send DB the first installment of his data curation later today.

DB curated the Lunar Orbiter missions data which is missing from the alphabetical list of NASA missions on the NASA site at https://www.nasa.gov/missions.

HA has broken the paper into sections and has been working on those prior to putting them back together.

6/15/18: Continued progress

DB reported that he has gone through the analysis spreadsheets and flagged all the columns that are not used, but not actually deleted them (at least not yet). This simplified the updating process considerably when new curated data for international missions becomes available.

RS reported that the OAS paper abstract needs some revisions. He has sent his suggestion to HA.

VK reported that there was no obvious dependency or connection between satellite data and extraterrestrial mission data. This is good in the sense that both types of data can usefully be incorporated into an overall metric of progress in space exploration, which DB is hoping to be able to do a major update on by the end of the summer.
      Also VK presented some new data mining results which used some more sophisticated algorithms than at the basic level.

HA was not available but emailed to thank VK for the new graph. He is at a workshop currently.

JS was not available but has said he would try to forward some curated data in time for DB to incorporate into his analysis spreadsheet system.

6/8/2018 meeting: schedule for the OAS paper, etc.

From last week's meeting: RS reported that at last week's meeting progress was reported but no major breakthroughs. JS introduced himself. Total meeting time was about 30 min.

For today:

• RS emailed info on the OAS paper format requirements.
• HA emailed a suggested schedule for working on and completing a paper for OAS. See schedule below.

Number & Steps		Deadline
I	Abstract	June 10th
II	Literature Review	June 20th
III	Background	June 22nd
IV	Data Analysis	June 30th
V	Discussion	July 6th
VI	Conclusion	July 12th
VII	Future Work	July 13th
VIII	Reference	July 20th
IX	Paper Review & Comments	July 25th
X	Paper Ready to be submitted	August 1st
XI	Slide for Presentation	August 5th

• VK is exploring if there are other data sources that he can draw from.
• DB reported on updating the overall graph to include 2017 data. Still to be incorporated: VK's satellite launches per year data, and international mission data that JS is curating. Then we should write another paper.