9/7/18: Updates

1. Data Status. DB showed the analysis spreadsheet and explained the just-implemented method of calculating the quality of the curve by adding up the downward excursions.

2. What's next? VK showed some new visualizations of NEA (Near Earth Asteroid) data. This can be used as the results of another paper. We discussed perhaps the WMSCI conference next summer for this. Of course, the paper would have to be written first.

3. New team member! Welcome to BA, who is planning to port the analysis spreadsheets from Excel to JavaScript. This involves comparisons of different designs and implementation.

Unfinished business:

AAS paper (not really "unfinished" except that it hasn't been published yet)
OAS paper
References that have not yet been cited
Readings to discuss

8/24/18: Moving Forward

1. Data curation report. DB has found the flyby distances for all NASA missions except WMAP. The international missions have not yet been done.

2. What's next?

VK identified NEO data that might be good to mine and analyze. Next week, use Blackboard Collaborate so VK can show us the site with the data. HA might, for example, take the lead on another OAS paper structured similarly to the last one but focusing on visualizations of the new data.

CH may be back to work on a project, and one thing needed is to extract mission end dates (we already have launch dates and contact dates).

Unfinished business:

AAS paper (not really "unfinished" except that it hasn't been published yet)
OAS paper
References that have not yet been cited
Readings to discuss

8/17/18: What's next?

1. The AAS paper: It is submitted and accepted, pending receipt of the fee. Hardcopy of the journal will be available at the next meeting, if anyone goes to it. It will be online supposedly in January, but check the relevant email to be sure. Some publication data:

• "... the Proceedings freely available worldwide online at http://libinfo.uark.edu/aas/ and are currently moving the archive tohttp://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas/ repository (indexed in the Directory of Open Access Repositories)."
• "Subject to receipt of the page charges by Dr. Hemmati by August 31, your manuscript will appear in Volume 72, available as a hard copy at the next annual meeting. A Table of contents should be available January 2019 on the Academy website for you to update future manuscript submissions and in press articles. By submitting your Page charges, the corresponding author agrees, on behalf of all the manuscript authors, to the digitization of your manuscript and posting of the digital copy to the Journal archive. A pdf of your manuscript will be sent to the corresponding author’s current email address following the 2019 annual meeting for easy redistribution by the author."

2. The OAS paper: It is submitted. DB has concerns that the figure descriptions need more details which he will need to specify so VK can add them.

3. Data curation report. It is essentially done but checking and so on can continue.

4. I need to go through the OAS paper and identify all the references that have not yet been cited in any paper. That way we can put them in a future paper. This should be doable in part by looking at what references are not in the final draft, but are in the earlier drafts.

5. What next? We discussed next papers and activities. VK would like to continue making new visualizations, but using different data. DB has curated data, or data could be scraped from the web, such as wikipedia table data scraped using google sheets populating commands. A master's student could do that as a project or thesis. DB would like to work on graphing technical performance over time using the curated data but this leads to the problem of searching a large parameter space which would be much better to do automatically than in code. A student could assist in writing this software, which could be done in JavaScript in a web page that also contains the publicly released curated data.

6. Another thing we can do is read and discuss the various remaining sources on our reading list.

7/27/2018 - Next steps on AAS and OAS papers, etc.

1. The AAS paper:

• DB needs to go through the reviews one more time and make any remaining changes needed. Then send to authors for final comments, then RS uploads to site.
• DB needs to send RS a personal check made out to AAS and get reimbursed. Address?
• HA needs to send RS his share made out to AAS.
• RS needs to mail the payments to the organizer to arrive by Aug. 31
• RS has no remaining funds but did take care of registration and such which was $90, per the meeting post of 3/9/18. Ultimately we may want to figure out who paid what out of pocket, and even things up so each of us (faculty only) contribute the same amount out of pocket.

2. Deadline for the AAS paper is I think Aug. 31. That would include submittal of the updated manuscript, response to reviewers, and receipt of payment by US mail.

3. The OAS paper submittal is due Aug. 15, I think it was. The fee structure is at http://www.oklahomaacademyofscience.org/membership.html.

4. DB sent VK's new figures to HA for possible use in the OAS paper.

5. DB is past 2000 in incorporating international missions into the data analysis. On track for completion by end of summer.

7/20/2018: Progress on papers, etc.

1. The AAS paper: VK and RD have contributed changes including revised figures in response to the reviews. Thanks! DB has incorporated those things into the version to be submitted.

2. DB plans to go through the reviews one more time and make any remaining changes needed.

3. There is the AAS publication fee to deal with. RS's funds are tapped out, so HA and DB will ask our institutions if they can contribute. Ultimately the faculty may need to contribute some personal funds as needed. If I recall correctly, AAS wanted checks made out to them. These have to be delivered to RS in time for him to send them to AAS by the Aug. 31 deadline.

4. RS also paid for conf. and such which was $90, per the meeting post of 3/9/18. Ultimately we may want to figure out who paid what out of pocket, and even things up so each of us (faculty only) contribute the same amount out of pocket.

5. Deadline for the AAS paper is I think Aug. 31. That would include submittal of the updated manuscript, response to reviewers, and receipt of payment by US mail.

6. The OAS paper submittal is due Aug. 15, I think it was. HA has sent us a partial draft. RS will make changes this afternoon and then send to DB. DB will make further changes and send back to HA. The fee structure is at http://www.oklahomaacademyofscience.org/membership.html.

7. DB will send VK's new figures to HA for possible use in the OAS paper.

8. DB is into the 1990s in incorporating international missions into the data analysis.

9. JS sent an interesting tool link. DB will forward it to all and add it to the reading list.

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.