2016-01-20 status

Done

Data Collection

• Created new feature-rich manual data collection tool (formerly MDC5 but now rechristened abcDE) to allow input of partial fingering information.
• Created detailed help page for same.
• Defined file format, abcD, and implemented its recognition by the new editor.
• Defined abcDF grammar for fingering sequences.
• Created parser for abcDF.
• Defined public interface to abcDE JavaScript library.
• Deployed abcDE to nlp.cs.uic.edu.
• Completed initial descriptive statistics for survey data.
• Wrote script to identify note-wise fingering "consensus" in Survey I data.

 Doing

1. Drafting paper for ISMIR 2016 to describe abcDE.
2. Performing Chi Square analysis of exploratory dataset to correlate abbreviated Parncutt fingerings with gender, reach, age, Hanon usage, technical practice, preparation actions, injury, etc.
3. Looking at how well selecting fingering a in Exercise A predicts selecting fingering b in Exercise B. That is, do people have common patterns of fingering preference?
4. Evaluating Tableau for easier (and richer) data visualization. (SQLite support missing for OS X.)

Struggling

• What? Me worry?