Week 14: 11/29/2016 - 12/06/2016

This week I attended the MLH Local Hack Day at YSU on Saturday. Jenna gave an interactive talk on setting up Spark, along with a Scala code tutorial of some simple loops and functions. I was a little intimidated by the syntax, but I think over time I will adjust to the language. I viewed her powerpoint presentation on running Tweet data through Spark, but we are meeting up on Friday to continue the learning process. We now have 6 participants in our study and will soon be moving on to the machine learning phase of our project. I am eager to continue moving forward with this phase as I continue to learn more in my field.