Oh, you can tell the assignment is getting to me now - 3 nights in a row I have been dreaming of data analysis in Python. Very frustrating, particularly as it never solves any of the problems and just wakes me up unrefreshed.
Today however in my studies, I was the victim of my own overthinking. Spent 2 hours or more undertaking a chunk of data mining to predict some missing data from one of the EMA datasets. Thought that I had 36 things to predict, so hey good practice with the data mining, right?
Err - not quite! Turns out I had 4 things to predict, which I could find on a simple Google search within 5 seconds! So this fact has also been written in to the final report as a warning to would-be users of data mining.
I have a couple more major tasks to do (statistical testing and possibly some data mining if I can bring myself to return to it yet again), and then a lot of pulling together and tidying up the final report and folder structure.
But feeling more positive now (thanks to some sacrificed time-off and weekend daytime study) that I will be finished in time for my own deadlines. (no choice about the module deadline as I will be on holiday by then and unable to submit it late).
And then - what next? For me? For my mojo? For the blog? It's always been about the OU journey from start to 'wherever' - now I am within a couple of weeks of 'wherever'. Of course there's still that last walk down the aisle to Graduation too....roll on November ( - but not too quickly, I want to enjoy that hard-earned time off...!)
It's still really odd not to have the next module waiting to be signed up for. And unfortunately the OU courses are now out of my price range to do as a 'fun thing', so unless I decided to go down the Masters route (nah.... I'm done.....) then I will be 'done'.
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