Subject: IFDA 04/26/2021 meeting note
From: Lanyi Xu <[email-masked]>
To: Brian Junker <[email-masked]>
Cc: Yanxi Zhou <[email-masked]>, Xiaofan Zhu <[email-masked]>, Malik Khan <[email-masked]>, Zixia Luan <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:07:22 -0400

Dear professor Junker,
Thank you for spending time with us! Here is the meeting note for today’s meeting. 

Update on Preliminary Draft and future work
Report Feedback
High-level comments:
Intro: Two major research questions. Did not see any work on the first question in the draft. It is necessary to decide if a. More research in question a or b. Decide that is not the question we can answer this semester.  (this is out of major question and talk about it in the discussion section.)  
Looking for progress on the question, not the definite answer. Maybe not put it in the introduction section and put it in the discussion section. 
One potential solution is to track where the candidates are coming from. But we may not have enough information. 
The companies we interviewed are not majorly concerned about competition from ecommerce. They care more about the wage competition. 
Quote from interviews
Not an identified question in the report, but a section of discussion will pick the question up and discuss why we hadn’t dealt with the question but why it’d be interesting for future research. 
 Technical appendix 
Put the most detailed roadmap as the technical appendix along with the final report
Shorter version in the main paper (different level of understanding) 
One report and several appendices and One report with a detailed appendix 
- Visualize existent data in result section and refer to that in the detailed roadmap, supplementing the EDA in the result 
- two sub section results: 1. EDA on existent data 2. A complete but not detailed version of the roadmap, without all the details in it. We can categorize this into the Recruitment Framework we mention, and do this for the actual roadmap
                 e.  Pipeline: 
Reference 
Cite those in the reference section

Questions for Junker
Statistical terminology page
Glossary of statistical term: what it is. 
Target: someone who is very smart but does not know anything about math. We do not rely on equations to explain things.
One to two pages on total 
Advice/Assignment: Be able to explain these concepts out yourself, given class, internet links, identifying important parts of the concept. Look up a couple articles online that would help you explain these models to the audience.
I.e. Tree based model:
For trees, explaining how the splits are made. It keeps doing splits until the information split is no longer useful.
Appendix
1: glossary
2-3: detailed roadmap
Rest: specific appendix to each of the client 

Discussion: research question is board
Lean on the teammates, getting feedback from teammates
Just one research question: what data should IFDA be collecting that could help the recruitment process? 
Discussion will be mainly on the roadmap. Maybe use EDA and models to refer to things on the roadmap. Structure the highlights in a complete narrative that ties back to the whole paper. People remember stories more than lists of factors.Common , coherent stories. 
How do I get to those answers?
Follow up questions and our report
Methodology and results from the interviews are missing. And it is very important. It is important to combine the methods we use 
Method: 
Questionnaires and revisions after review
Preliminary answers to the questionnaires
Interviews
Followed-up interview and responses
Summarize the response from each company. Transcript from interview and put it in the appendix. (include information from those interviews). Make sure every question has an answer to it. 
Each company has its own attitudes and values towards data collection, the interview reflects their attitude 
Put the responses in the appendix for each company with questions stated

Overview of Questions to Ask Annika
Go with a proposal instead of a question on statistical terminology. Use the example of a tree model.

Other

Presentation. It is great if we could include other students. 
Thursday 10:30am works
High level bullet points of improvements to rough draft

Best,
Lanyi