Thanks for all the ballot stuffing ;-)

To 

  The students who took classes with me in 2011-12:

Dear all:

 I have been told by the department that I was voted by the students as the best teacher in CSE for 2011-12 year. 

Assuming that my constituency would have been the students who took classes with me this year, which includes you, I would like to thank you for all the  energetic ballot stuffing ;-)

I am supposed to get the (no doubt very substantial cash)  award on Monday during the CIDSE awards shindig.

Cheers

Rao

 

Re: CSE 598 : IR -- Dating app based on Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, And Facebook Data

Thanks for letting me know!

 Since the lecture with that idea is recorded and is on youtube,

I wonder if I can get these Yokels to fork over some pre-IPO options for me.. 

Rao 

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Abhishek Kumar <akumar66@asu.edu> wrote:

Dear Prof,

I took the IR course offered by you last semester.

In one of the lectures related to collaborative filtering, you were talking about an idea that

Amazon can use collaborative filtering to suggest soul mates.

There is a new app, Yoke, which is based on that idea.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/28/yoke/ 

Thanks
Abhishek Kumar
Graduate Student
Arizona State University
Mobile: 480-381-0004
 

Streaming videos of cse494 (albeit a bit late for you ..)

Thought this may be of interest to some of you. 

I was able to upload most of the cse494 videos to youtube. They are now linked to the class page http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/cse494 and are streamable and random-accessible. 

Rao

teaching evaluations...

Dear all:

 Hope you had a good (if all too short) break; I certainly did roaming the backwaters of Kerala.

I just got your teaching evaluations for the course and it looks like the course was received  well. 

Thanks to the ~75% of you who took time to provide feedback and comments; 

I will try my best to take them into account (except perhaps for the "the course is hard" variety ;-). 

[And as for the other ~25%, they should be riddled with guilt for not taking part ;-)]

 It is my somewhat quixotic custom to make the complete evaluations--warts and all--available to 

the class students for a limited time.  So, here goes:

http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/cse494/f11-598-evals.htm

http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/cse494/f11-ug-evals.htm

If you have any further comments/questions you need to get off your chest, feel free to email me. Otherwise, this will likely be the last mail on this list.

Wishing you all a great new year..

Rao

The extra credit points

Here are the extra credit points 

For project extra credit, the points you got are normalized by the total for the regular project and multiplied by the weight

(so if you get 10 extra credit points on a project that is graded for 50 pts, and counts for 10% of your grade, then you get (10/50)*10 = 2 cumulative points)

The UGs got extra credit for doing the midterm at home (it was counted as 3.5 cumulative points)

The UGs also got extra credit if they did the last question on the final ( which counts for [x/100]*15  cumulative points)

The social networks extra credit homework counted for 3.5 cumulative points.

All said there were a maximum of  14 cumulative points that one could have amassed. 

This will likely be the last mail about the class cumulatives. You should be able to find your letter grades from the registrar as and when they get posted.

Wishing you all a wonderful (if all too brief) holiday season. 

Rao

(hopefully) final cumulatives

Folks

 Here are the final cumulatives for the class.  They contain your final exam marks; project 3 and demo marks and a participation grade. Let us know if you find any errors anywhere

[Note that the final was graded out of 115 for grads and 100 for UG--with the answers to the paper reviews kept as extra credit portion]

I computed the regular cumulative with 5% for participation, 25% for homeworks, 30% for exams and 40% for project. I will try some other weighted averages and take the maximum among those.

I have not computed the extra credit part---given that the grading is relative, adding extra credit to the total at the outset makes extra credit "mandatory". My idea is to set the thresholds first based on regular marks and

then consider bumping your grade based on your extra credit points. 

I normally ask the students at the top of the ladder in the 494 and 598 sections to suggest grade cutoffs for their respective sections. I offer the same chance to the current two top candidates. 

(of course, this is only advisory--but does give me useful input in that the students know the comparative level of difficulty of the class).

regards

Rao

Submitting the final

Folks

 You can submit the final in hard copy by just pushing it under my door (BY 560). If you come after 8AM, the department front desk should be open and you can also submit it there telling them that it is for me.

Please don't speed on the roads on my account; +/- a few minutes is fine. 

Rao