SE2006:group bar:Presentation

General Notes

• ask specific questions about audience questions
• note more general problems as we encountered them & how we overcame them

Outline

• 1. intro, problem overview - making data accessible - Kevin & Toby (3 minutes)
  • making data into information & the motivation behind it. there are lots of government & other web sites that show you one type of information, but we wanted a standard interface that facilitated comparison of different types of data and information.
  • what does that entail/how did we go about solving the problem?
    • realize data that needs comparison
    • find a method to store that data
    • concoct a way to compare data -> information
  • overview of the whole system
    • show picture of whiteboard
    • go over API - generally
    • go over WUI - generally

• 2. problems we faced - Aybars (2 minutes)

• 3. showing off - Colin & Alex (5 minutes)
  • temperature graph
  • degree days vs. temperature
  • air quality graph - good days over time
  • sorgum display - growth concentrations
  • open list... others?

(Lead in to next section: "So, now that we've showed you all this information, you might be wondering, what is the data behind it, where does it come from, and how do we process it?")

• 4. adding a source: Alex & Toby (4 minutes)
  • show process of scraping simple site (author names), show in WUI
  • add age highlighter, show in WUI
  • (data limiter by class year, show it in the WUI, maybe)

• 5. future work: Kevin & Colin (1 minute)
  • implementing new features
    • different ways of visualizing data (e.g., instead of points, display shapes that better elucidate the data at hand)
  • updated API
  • automatic google link generation
  • others?