2015-11-04 status

Done

Data Collection

• Distributed initial survey recruitment to new email lists of 4,424 piano teachers, assembled from music teacher association sites in Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, Massachusetts, Florida, New Jersey, and Georgia.
• Received 154 responses so far (with 139 completing both parts).
• Exchanged more emails with people who had problems with the survey tool or questions about the study.
• Obtained C-MIDI source code from Dr. Dimitry Gorodnichy of the University of Ottawa. This may give us a head start on our contemplated automatic data collector (ADC).
• Created new repo for ADC at https://github.com/dvdrndlph/dactylize. It is supposed to be a pun, as in dactyl (finger) + ize (eyes). But I don't think anyone is going to get it.
• Created virtual Windows host and opened the C-MIDI code in Visual Studio. Not too surprisingly, the projects won't build.
• Gnashed teeth when survey participant pointed out mistake in Exercise 3.

BowTIE

• Reached out to Ashkan Rezaei, a first year CS PhD student at UIC and jazz aficionado about maybe helping us evaluate BowTIE. He has an interest in automatic transcription, which would be very useful for our evaluation. He is receptive to the idea.

Doing

1. Defining SQLite schemata for (anonymized) survey data.
2. Writing script to load said schemata.
3. Adding file save and print features to MDC4.
4. Adding support for non-exhaustive input in MDC4.
5. Integrating MDC4 into draft Qualtrics survey for WTC, Book 1, Prelude 1.
6. Assembling prerequisites (JavaScript libraries, data layer) for BowTIE.
7. Standardizing file format for fingering.

Struggling

• Response rate stinks. Currently, its upper bound is 154/5292 = 2.9%.
• Do I need to worry about selection bias? (Are we only going to get outlier subjects with unusually diverse notions of fingering?)