Lab Meeting, Spring 2016, Week 16

Awe- and Aw-inspiring readings (or just stuff you think deserves a mention)

Joe Fruehwald has a blog post with a really nice walk through of using list columns in dplyr (columns that can hold another data frame, a model output, etc.) with purrr::map for running the same model on subsets of data (like Wednesday showed us). -DK
(If you're curious about how you might refactor an analysis along these lines, compare this analysis of vowel distributions at talker/gender/dialect level available here with the original version of the same analysis. I was surprised how much purrr and dplyr can work together to streamline and speed up code.) -DK
New paper out looking at eye-tracking and speech planning. Reports that speakers' gaze during speech planning sensitive to what is in common ground and finds little evidence that this leads to delays in speech planning. Vanlangendonck, Willems, Menenti, & Hagoort, (2016). An early influence of common ground during speech planning. LCN, 3798, 1–10. doi:10.1080/23273798.2016.1148747

Ran an MTurk experiment from Scott that he told me about on Wednesday and had all the data by Friday afternoon
Fixed some code in my list balancer that got broken by Amazon changing an API limit
Helped Dave get a couple PostgreSQL databases set up for his new experiment backend
Started changes to my experiment runner to give it an API and make it a general experiment runner instead of two slightly out of sync copies of the same codebase; one for SPR experiments and one for SocAlign experiments
Looked through the docs and source for the Amazon MTurk API 1.7.0 for Java to see if it's worth using it instead of or in addition to boto. Short term probably not, but if boto3 never adds MTurk support (currently they have no plans to) and they never merge my patch for boto2 (looking increasingly unlikely after a year), then quite possibly it's worth it long term.

Wrapped up initial pass testing of AutoVOT and got in contact with the creators for some thoughts on what to about it's reliability.
Wrapped up initial analyses for JML follow-up, just waiting on the remaining annotations before planning next steps.
Continued drafting up JML follow-up write-up for dissertation.
Read new paper by H.H. Clark in Psych Review on depiction
Attended the Pton language group meeting, read the back - and - forth in PNAS between Lidz and colleagues and Piantadosi & Kidd.

Did my final NSF GRFP activity report.
Wrote up hierarchical clustering based analyses of animal imaging project.
Improvements to experiment back end (check/record start, finish, abandon, submit; show informative error messages)
Deploy MTurk experiment to www (including setting up databases) and pilot
Drafted abstract for LabPhon workshop based on Kodi's analysis of Nationwide Speech Project data.
Refactored code for KL divergence and classification error for NSP vowels using purrr and friends.
Re-started work on implementing contrasts coding for Julia

Got C&G code from Linda, working on making it my own for a pilot of the pupillometry project
Broke homebrew, fixed homebrew, got lolcommits working
Stats finaaaaaallllll