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  • Liliana Tang created a wiki page Week 12 - Project Week 4 December 8, 2018 - 11:41pm
    This week I have the privilege to present and listen to amazing presentations from my classmates. They are all very knowledgable and passionate in whatever they are doing. I have learned quite a bit about cloud computing, queries optimization,...
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    • Sarah Camsell
      Sarah Camsell December 9, 2018 - 1:50am

      Hey Liliana! Great to meet you, and I'm sure we'll see each other again! I too, work a full-time job, and I do part-time website development and online conference registration in addition to my government job. During this course, at the end of October, I left my old job, started a new job, moved across the country and had a conference to do :D  It was awful and I'm sure my course work suffered. When I moved to my new place, in the Arctic, I couldn't even get internet hooked up at my house until the ice road was in, so I missed a lot of time.

      I know how you feel! We do it because we love it, I guess. Learning will never end, and I love Athabasca, and the freedom it gives.

    • Liliana Tang December 9, 2018 - 9:10am

      Hey Sarah! Thanks for all the kind words! You don't know how much they mean to me! Yes learning is a journey, not a destination. I often remind myself that if there is no pain, there will be no gain. I've sent a request to connect on Linkedin along your way! I hope to stay in touch with like-minded people like you! Good luck with the rest of your Masters journey at Athabasca!

  • Well, this is rotten. As the article suggests, the loss of Hangouts and Allo was pretty inevitable, given the large overlap in functionality between them and various Google apps (notably their Messages app), and that Google has a long history of...
  • Fairouz Alatabeh published a blog post Week 14. political language December 6, 2018 - 9:14am
    Week 14. This is our exercise for this week. “Can you think of some examples of "political language"—that is, words or phrases that "smuggle" or encode a specific political subtext?” I found this question very interesting and I...
  • Shallen Dam commented on a wiki page titled Week 11 - Project Week 2 December 3, 2018 - 6:05pm
    I feel your pain on how busy you ave been! Between work, my kids activities and trying to balance the remainder of this course with the other course that I am doing (which includes an exam this week) it's been a little overwhelming. But we are...
  • Fairouz Alatabeh published a blog post Week 13 December 3, 2018 - 10:47am
    Week 13 is for reviewing our literature review.It's important to review, revising, edit, and proofreading our papers before the final submission.I'm editing my paper based on the valuable inputs I have received from my instructor. I'm also looking...
  • Fairouz Alatabeh published a blog post Importance of peer review November 29, 2018 - 8:02pm
    Week 13. After we submitted our draft literature review, we do peer review for 2 peers at least.  Peer review is important because it allows other scholars to check or review a manuscript in the same field. It helps in improving the quilty...
  • Liliana Tang created a wiki page Week 11 - Project Week 2 November 29, 2018 - 12:57pm
    This week has been very busy and overwhelming sometimes as I really want to end my first term of Masters degree with good grades; plus we have a performance review at work tomorrow so instant noodles have been my best friends so far, but I am quite...
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    • Shallen Dam December 3, 2018 - 6:05pm

      I feel your pain on how busy you ave been! Between work, my kids activities and trying to balance the remainder of this course with the other course that I am doing (which includes an exam this week) it's been a little overwhelming. But we are finally in the home stretch!

  • Liliana Tang commented on a wiki page titled Week 10 - Project Week 1 November 29, 2018 - 12:23pm
    Hi Shallen,  Thanks for your reply. It is always a great feeling to hear that I could help sombody one way or another. Yes, I was very surprised too as I have been using SQL as main programming lanaguages for all data mining prospects at work,...
  • Fairouz Alatabeh published a blog post Week 12 - Problem, Solution, or Evaluation November 26, 2018 - 6:39pm
    This week I’ve learned how to recognize a Problem, Solution, or Evaluation in a text. It helped me to learn how to state my ideas and put them in the right part of the text. I’ve also learned how to plan and organize a problem or...
  • Shallen Dam commented on a wiki page titled Week 10 - Project Week 1 November 25, 2018 - 9:00am
    That's really interesting that SQL is not the top laguage for data mining, I never would have thought. I am taking the individual data mining course starting January 1, now that you have posted this I think I will start looking to R and Python to...
  • Jon, This looks great. My only question is how do I become a member of the faculty?
  • If you weren't there, these may not mean much! We are currently developing a number of proposals that may (if approved) turn into graduate programs. This is a presentation about two of them (the teams for which I'm chairing): the (both provisionally...
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  • Liliana Tang created a wiki page Week 10 - Project Week 1 November 23, 2018 - 12:36pm
    This week was a busy week. Although most of the time was spent on compiling the foundations portfolio, I managed to spare sometime learning data mining technqiues and tools by reading a book called Introduction to Data Mining by Tan, Steinbach, and...
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    • Shallen Dam November 25, 2018 - 9:00am

      That's really interesting that SQL is not the top laguage for data mining, I never would have thought. I am taking the individual data mining course starting January 1, now that you have posted this I think I will start looking to R and Python to maybe use that course as an opportunity to learn a couple of new languages, so thank you for posting this!

    • Liliana Tang November 29, 2018 - 12:23pm

      Hi Shallen, 

      Thanks for your reply. It is always a great feeling to hear that I could help sombody one way or another. Yes, I was very surprised too as I have been using SQL as main programming lanaguages for all data mining prospects at work, but it's time for me to learn something new. R has challenged me much so far! I will take Data Mining class in Winmter 2019 too, so see you again soon :)

  • Katrina Paquin replied on the discussion topic Existentialism vs Person-Centred Therapy November 23, 2018 - 9:51am
    Josh,  My apologies for my delayed response as it doesn't seem that my notifications were working. I found your response very interesting to read, particularly what you have said about genetics. I am also a bit sceptical that we are "entirely"...
  • Steve Swettenham commented on the blog Its official as of November 14, 2018 - CALL TO ACTION November 19, 2018 - 12:55am
    If anyone would like the aforementioned Call To Action modified let me know. Thanks.
  • Steve Swettenham uploaded the file 2018-2019 COUNCIL MEMBER CONTRACT November 19, 2018 - 12:36am
    Commented document of flaws that need to be fixed to bring fairness to distance education students.
  • Steve Swettenham uploaded the file 2018-2019 COUNCIL MEMBER CONTRACT November 19, 2018 - 12:35am
    Commented document of flaws that need to be fixed to bring fairness to distance education students.
  • Steve Swettenham uploaded the file 2018-2019 COUNCIL MEMBER CONTRACT November 19, 2018 - 12:35am
    Commented document of flaws that need to be fixed to bring fairness to distance education students.