{"id":764,"date":"2017-06-26T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T19:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/?p=764"},"modified":"2017-06-27T10:52:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T16:52:29","slug":"week-2-the-battles-between-matrices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/2017\/06\/26\/week-2-the-battles-between-matrices\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2, the Battles Between Matrices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since day one I&#8217;ve had all the numbers I&#8217;ll be using for the summer, and my mentor has allowed me to have my project as open-ended in approach as I want it to be. With this mass of data in conjunction with using a program I&#8217;ve never used before in a program language I&#8217;ve only taken free classes on in the past, it&#8217;s easy to say that I started off both overwhelmed\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0 unsure of what my plan of attack would be.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few days, however, I&#8217;ve noticed a pattern in how I approach my data throughout the week. I&#8217;m basically playing with a handful of variables from date and forecast hours to elevation paired with altitude all in correlation to measured forecast inaccuracies. At first one would think that only five variables isn&#8217;t a lot to spend a whole summer on calculating with, but once you start crunching numbers and discovering the tools\u00a0and potential of your software, those five variables produce\u00a0twenty-five\u00a0different results &#8211; all of which can be expanded on. \u00a0Of course, all these data can be presented in a number of unique ways\u00a0from a simple chart to\u00a0a three-dimensional topographical surface.<\/p>\n<p>Playing with this much data makes days at work interesting. When I&#8217;m playing with a new set of variables, I&#8217;m not quite sure what I&#8217;m going to do with them at the start of the day. As that day progresses, however, I find myself asking weird questions and focusing on certain aspects of those variables. Since my goal with this program is to ask questions that haven&#8217;t been answered before, I find it healthy to go on these statistical tangents to produce unique, and more importantly, relevant, results that can\u00a0provide interesting insight to the correlations in my precipitation analysis. After a good day of calculations, I&#8217;ll find myself with a few homemade graphs that I can&#8217;t help but display in my little cubicle and take pride in.<\/p>\n<p>-Jason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since day one I&#8217;ve had all the numbers I&#8217;ll be using for the summer, and my mentor has allowed me to have my project as open-ended in approach as I want it to be. With this mass of data in conjunction with using a program I&#8217;ve never used before in a program language I&#8217;ve only&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/2017\/06\/26\/week-2-the-battles-between-matrices\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reccs-2017"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-26 01:35:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ciresblogs.colorado.edu\/reccs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}