Weekly Update for December 03

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# Weekly Update for December 03
### 2018/12/03

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# About Slides

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# New CSAFE slide template

We're now using [`xaringan`](https://github.com/yihui/xaringan)

What's changed:

- New person slide:

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- New content slide with title:

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- New content slide without title:

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# Sample User

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# Sample Slide

- Sample Table. Sam Tyner talked about the three must-haves of your summary:

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- If you are going to add an image, **create a directory** with your name within "images" folder. For example, "images/**guillermo**/sample_image.JPG"

<img src = "images/guillermo/sample_image.JPG" width="35%"/>
 
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# Kiegan

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# Fall Semester Goals

- Submit to AFTE journal  
- Complete writing of Chapman & Hall book  
    - Working on this from home T/Th  
- Write a joint paper with Nate on grooves project  
    - Probably aim for Journal of Forensic Sciences  
    - Compare/contrast of methodologies
    - Downstream impact on the algorithm!  
- Taking one class (Stat 643) and research credits

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# Nate

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# SLR

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# Amy

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# Fall Semester Goals

- Data Collection Pilot in spring semester, then full collection.
- Expand Bayesian hierarchical model
 - Formal Model Selection
 - Tests and Intervals
 - Validation
- Write and submit a paper on that modeling. Draft by end of break.
- Exploritory analysis of 'next level' features (AAFS)
 - Work with Ben and Nick

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# Recently

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# Ben

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# Semester Intentions
<img src = "images/ben/stack.jpg" width="35%"/>
- Collaborate w/Nic & Amy to improve handwriting project
- Develop improvements / features part of algorithm
- Eventually port algorithm through an application portal
- Improve file structure of project
- Working on preprocessing binary image
 - Prototyping w/ Numba & Python
 - Testing performance relative to Cpp
 - Hope to expedite development

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# Guillermo

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# Moving Forward with Shoeprints Study

- Selecting a few participants to continue in the study

- Discussion: 
    + Gender (technician doesn't fit in womens shoes)
    + Size
    + Participants (Participants with two pair of shoes?)

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# About RACs and Pilot

- Idea: Use neural networks to classify RACs (or identify)?

- Let us look at the data structure

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# Sam

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# Fall semester plans:

- submit papers from thesis for publication
- writing R packages with SP
    + glass 
    + shoes
    + "uncertainty pyramid" stuff with SL & HI
- working on book funded by ROpenSci Fellowship 
- narrowing down topics & formats for new CSAFE training materials 
- writing "Ten Simple Rules for..." articles with DO
    + statisticians doing forensic science
    + forensic scientists doing statistics
    + [legal professionals encountering statistics](https://github.com/CSAFE-ISU/slides/issues/2)

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# Susan

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# Last week

- `bulletxtrctr` test coverage to 97%
- `x3ptools` test coverage to 98%
- Truthiness: 20/41 recordings transcribed
- Worked on shoe heatmaps with Miranda
- Bullet case validation paper fixes

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# Miranda

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# Heatmaps

<img src = "images/miranda/2018-12-03/heatmap_2099.png" width="100%"/>
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# Heatmaps

<img src = "images/miranda/2018-12-03/heatmap_834.png" width="100%"/>
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# Heatmaps

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# James

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# Currently

* Have compleated baby powder prints on the size 10-10.5 pairs of shoes (complete sets)
* Continueing on with the mud prints and casting
* Planning for the next phase of the study

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# Bugs of Some Sort

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# Soyoung

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# Fall semester plans: 
- Shoes
    + Wrap up shoe analysis using SURF 
    + Compare the performance with other methods such as phase only correlations, Fourier-Mellin transformation correlation
    + Do analysis with CSAFE shoe scans with vests
    
- Research on "uncertainty pyramid" with Steve and Hari at NIST   
- Glass analysis with Sam
    + Writing EDA paper to submit within Jan.
    + Various covariance estimations
- Working on book chapters of glass and shoes funded by ROpenSci Fellowship

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# Shoe scan example with vests 
 <img src="images/soyoung/shoe_scan_jimmy.PNG" width="70%">

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# Shoe scan example with vests 
 <img src="images/soyoung/shoe_scan_ganesh.PNG" width="70%">

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# Danica

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# Fall Semester Goals

- Submit draft BF vs. LR paper to AOS  
    - Write a follow-up paper to LPR  
- Continue NIJ grant to validate FDE conclusions  
- Work with Amy on the CSAFE Handwriting project  
- Work with Dan Spitzner from UVA on the CSAFE Statistical Foundations project
- Write a paper for LPR on approximations to BFs
- Write a paper on Fiducial Factors with UNC

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# Nick

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# Fall semester plans

- Working on preprocessing binary image
  - Prototyping w/ Numba & Python
  - Testing performance relative to Cpp
  - Hope to expedite development

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# Issues

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- [Issues!!](https://github.com/CSAFE-ISU/slides/issues)
- One issue down, three to go.