Whpearson recently mentioned that people in some other online communities frequently ask "what are you working on?". I personally love asking and answering this question. I made sure to ask it at the Seattle meetup. However, I don't often see it asked here in the comments, so I will ask it:
What are you working on?
Here are some guidelines
- Focus on projects that you have recently made progress on, not projects that you're thinking about doing but haven't started, those are for a different thread.
- Why this project and not others? Mention reasons why you're doing the project and/or why others should contribute to your project (if applicable).
- Talk about your goals for the project.
- Any kind of project is fair game: personal improvement, research project, art project, whatever.
- Link to your work if it's linkable
Aside from coursework and teaching, blah blah blah, I'm working on my master's thesis in statistics. I have data from a series of economic experiments that were originally analyzed using nonparametric methods that did not take the potential dependence structure in time into account - the data is several time series. I'm reanalyzing the data in a way that takes into account this dependence structure and including some model selection procedures. I'm considering several possible models, and at this stage I'm basically reading books and papers to learn about different potential models and Bayesian methods of analyzing those models, largely because I haven't had a course in time series yet.