[metrics-team] M.Sc projects at Edinburgh

[William Waites]

On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:37:43 -0800, David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com> said:

    > Historical analysis of gaming the HSDir hash ring

Cool one! I've included this more or less verbatim. Are you happy to
co-supervise?

On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 12:14:46 +0100, Karsten Loesing <karsten at torproject.org> said:

    > 3. Exposed bad relays

I like this one!

On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 18:08:53 +0100, tl <tl at rat.io> said:

    > The first step in the analytics project was setting
    > up the Big Data infrastructure and providing the raw Tor network
    > data in a format readily useable by standard data anlytics
    > tools. That work is practically done and now it has to be put to
    > good use

There's a lot here... Looking at the clock, I think that unless some
data science folk here latch onto these (and write the detailed
descriptions in time for Friday's deadline!) maybe wait for the next
iteration -- we don't have to do everything at once!

Cheers, and thank you to everyone who has responded!

-w

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