Data for this project come from the Dartmouth College
wireless network project
www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~campus/.
Students will be asked to take the original time-ordered log
file and create flow-centered (movement defined in terms of network
accesses) map of the campus.
The practical goal of this project is to use Unix and Perl tools
to extract usable information from the Dartmouth log file. Keep
in mind that these data were collected by careful researchers
who were attempting to uncover some of the same effects that we're
examining; any difficulties you have in processing can only get
worse in less carefully collected data. So another goal of this
project is to have you experience a kind of programming in which
you continually refine your programs/algorithms as you learn more
about the data.
What you are really learning is a process of checking your
computations and assessing if you've got it "right." With this
kind of programming, you are not as interested in a piece of
code that solves a general class of problems. Instead, you are
creating a program that lets you do just one thing; clean/shape/extract
information from the data you've been given.
Students are encouraged to check with their groups to compare
methods and verify their "answers."
The assignment: Project 1 | Task 3