Update.
I was back home visiting my family on the weekend, but back on track with posting now...
Visiting home was nice; I finally met my nephew (although since he's a baby, he'll keep growing so much between times I see him! By Christmas he could already be crawling around!). My brother seems very happy as a parent; the baby is super attached to him lol, and loves for my brother to carry him around. Maybe he likes being so high up? (my brother is 6'4) But anyway it was good.
Other than that...I've been very tired the last couple weeks, probably because the days are getting shorter. As winter starts to set in it tends to affect me pretty strongly. Not much going on in my personal life, although I'm getting together with my college buddies on Saturday to celebrate my birthday. For once I'm not the one baking! lol
Although I did bake for today; one of the projects I'm on at work had one of their potlucks, so I baked a cake for that. I tried a new recipe for a tuxedo cake: three layers of dark chocolate cake, with white chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate creamcheese frosting in between, and melted chocolated on top. People liked it a lot, almost all of it was eaten. It required a lot of bowls to make because of all the frostings...cleaning up was a bit of a chore.
Other than that, I'm starting to plan a model at work. One of the projects I'm on will be wrapping up in the Spring, and I'll be doing the analyses for the final report. The data are quite complex though, so I've started thinking about it now. I think we're going to have to use a piecewise quadratic growth curve with the intervention as a time-varying covariate, but it's complicated by the fact that individuals vary in their number of measurement occasions. I'm actually not sure if there's a good way to account for this (you can account for cohort sequential design, but this isn't cohorts, people just may have been present from 1 to 3 times in each year we collected data due to the nature of the study). Even if we can come up with a model, the sample size is quite small, so power is low and it will be hard to get anything useful out of it. But we'll try. And it's neat to work on such a complex model.
I'm also still playing around with the item response theory analyses, but it occurred to me that these analyses would give us evidence that the measures aren't really working...which would kinda discredit all the stuff that the lab has already published from these data. For the baseball project it doesn't matter (we have basically no chance of doing anything with the substantive content), but for the other one it would be an issue. They're still useful for our own knowledge though.
We're also continuing to work on coding the baseball videos...I don't know that we really have enough of them for any useful analyses though. And can we really get this done before we start filming basketball with so few people? Also, project manager continues to forget that I am on this project: they apparently are now having weekly project meetings. I heard about these meetings in passing from another coder, because I was not actually invited to them. They happen in my office though, because project manager apparently never thinks of having her meetings in the shared office used by the two people she's meeting with. The meetings are pretty rambling and time-wasting from my observation so I can't say I'm all that broken up about not going to them.
And of course I'm still working on That One Analysis. One day...one day I will finish it...
So that's the haps, pretty much. Also it's quite cold at night now, so I'm freeeeezing lol.
Visiting home was nice; I finally met my nephew (although since he's a baby, he'll keep growing so much between times I see him! By Christmas he could already be crawling around!). My brother seems very happy as a parent; the baby is super attached to him lol, and loves for my brother to carry him around. Maybe he likes being so high up? (my brother is 6'4) But anyway it was good.
Other than that...I've been very tired the last couple weeks, probably because the days are getting shorter. As winter starts to set in it tends to affect me pretty strongly. Not much going on in my personal life, although I'm getting together with my college buddies on Saturday to celebrate my birthday. For once I'm not the one baking! lol
Although I did bake for today; one of the projects I'm on at work had one of their potlucks, so I baked a cake for that. I tried a new recipe for a tuxedo cake: three layers of dark chocolate cake, with white chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate creamcheese frosting in between, and melted chocolated on top. People liked it a lot, almost all of it was eaten. It required a lot of bowls to make because of all the frostings...cleaning up was a bit of a chore.
Other than that, I'm starting to plan a model at work. One of the projects I'm on will be wrapping up in the Spring, and I'll be doing the analyses for the final report. The data are quite complex though, so I've started thinking about it now. I think we're going to have to use a piecewise quadratic growth curve with the intervention as a time-varying covariate, but it's complicated by the fact that individuals vary in their number of measurement occasions. I'm actually not sure if there's a good way to account for this (you can account for cohort sequential design, but this isn't cohorts, people just may have been present from 1 to 3 times in each year we collected data due to the nature of the study). Even if we can come up with a model, the sample size is quite small, so power is low and it will be hard to get anything useful out of it. But we'll try. And it's neat to work on such a complex model.
I'm also still playing around with the item response theory analyses, but it occurred to me that these analyses would give us evidence that the measures aren't really working...which would kinda discredit all the stuff that the lab has already published from these data. For the baseball project it doesn't matter (we have basically no chance of doing anything with the substantive content), but for the other one it would be an issue. They're still useful for our own knowledge though.
We're also continuing to work on coding the baseball videos...I don't know that we really have enough of them for any useful analyses though. And can we really get this done before we start filming basketball with so few people? Also, project manager continues to forget that I am on this project: they apparently are now having weekly project meetings. I heard about these meetings in passing from another coder, because I was not actually invited to them. They happen in my office though, because project manager apparently never thinks of having her meetings in the shared office used by the two people she's meeting with. The meetings are pretty rambling and time-wasting from my observation so I can't say I'm all that broken up about not going to them.
And of course I'm still working on That One Analysis. One day...one day I will finish it...
So that's the haps, pretty much. Also it's quite cold at night now, so I'm freeeeezing lol.