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iCMA47 done and the EMA - that close....

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Edited by David Pennington, Wednesday, 31 Aug 2016, 19:21

iCMA 7 is based on the units about the Semantic Web. I haven't read these but had a go at the iCMA. I got 77 on my first go so I left it at that. In fact, my maths said I didn't do that well but it appears that there was a problem with Q9 (which I didn't answer) and they had to take it out of the calculation. This bumped my overall % up! Great stuff.

I have the EMA done but I keep re-reading it and tweaking it. I have it out with a couple of "lay" friends - although both are in the computer word neither has real knowledge of what we are doing. I am hoping that they can make some sense of the report and can offer some comments that will make it more readable. Mind you, they have had it for 10 days now and no response so I have a feeling at I am on my own.

In spite of all my worries, I got all of my work done in Python/Pandas so my (and my tutor's) concern over my use of Smalltalk was one of the good old "herring rouges". My investigation of the Hibernation data seemed a bit trivial at the end but then, I am told, these things are like that as we don't know where we are going to end up when we start. The second question, involving both sets of data, came up with a surprising result and one that I didn't expect. I am putting off sending it off but it must go soon or I will ruin it with silly amendments.

That's about all I can say until we have all submitted our EMAs. Fingers crossed. If I have messed this one up then it will kill my enthusiasm for completing my degree after all these years. Mind you, I thought that I had messed up TMA02 and got 77% - in fact I did better in that one than I did in the first so who knows! If you hear my screams you will know. I would think I would scream if I pass as well so that'a not much of a guide.

As they say - Watch this space!

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