User:Allison98
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About Me
My name is Allison Li and I am a first-year engineering student at Duke University. I am from Illinois.
Name Pronunciation
My family name is Allison Li is pronounced aa-luh-sin LEE with a long e sound. I go by Allison.
Interests
I enjoy playing piano and violin. I am in the Duke Symphony Orchestra. Besides music, I am a runner and an avid reader.
Grand Challenges for Engineering
Computer approaches human skill for first time in brain challenge, Tina Hilding, Washington State University News, 16 August 2017, accessed 21 September 2017 (Advance Health Informatics)
Favorite Matlab Demonstration
My favorite matlab demonstration was "Viewing the Penny". This demonstration walked through how to draw different types of plots to model the same penny. I found this demonstration to be extremely interesting because it used real data acquired by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. In particular, I found it interesting that matlab could produce such detailed plots with only a few lines of code. The penny plots demonstrated matlab's ability to break down and simplify large data sets into familiar visuals. Even though matlab had no idea what a penny looked like, it was able to take data from the mold used to mint pennies and create the image of the penny in 2D and 3D.
