Objects, Research

Met with Dr. Paul this week.  We showed him our DB model and started talking about the object model.

For doing actual intelligence stuff, of course, we want to read stuff out of the database, put it into some type of objects, and do our work with the objects.  This is a big scary thing to think about (I get intimidated a bit easily sometimes), but we can try to start by designing the objects.

We also talked about needing to get some data into our system, and how we could write some software to put in fake data based on ranges & the distribution pattern of different items.  (For instance, if we expect patient weights with a certain mean and standard deviation, in a normal distribution, we can build that behavior into the data-maker-upper, and that would give us better sample data than just randomizing everything.)  Scary.

We also talked some about the need to do more research.  I want to start by re-reading some of the sources I used in our original grant proposal; I only skimmed them when we were writing that (in kind of a hurry, as I recall).

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