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Museumary

Trenton Strahan, Maxwell West, Joshua Morris,
Kelly Nguyen, Kenny Le

Introductions

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Trenton Strahan

  • About Me
    • Houston sports is everything to me
    • Astros 4 lyfe
    • Rockets 4 lyfe
  • Project Responsibilites
    • Front-end design
    • Data visualization
    • Pagination

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Max West

  • About Me
    • I have a cat named Richard
    • I enjoy long walks on the beach
    • I like reading and I'm getting a minor in history
    • I like movies and Amazon™
  • Project Responsibilities
    • Front-end React Captain

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Josh Morris

  • About Me
    • Fourth-year CS major
    • I enjoy Mexican food, being active, and playing Rocket League™
    • Rocket League please sponsor me
  • Project Responsibilities
    • Worked with the back-end team
    • Data visualization
    • Unit testing

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Kelly Nguyen

  • About Me
    • I am a loving mother to my many cats and my dog, Bear
    • They are my only hobby because I don't have time for anything else
    • I also like Tom Hanks and sushi
  • Project Responsibilities
    • Writing and documenting the RESTful API
    • Setting up and filling the database
    • Implementing search on the backend

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Kenny Le

  • About Me
    • I like to watch League at 5 AM
    • I live in the basement lab
    • I like fruit snacks
  • Project Responsibilities
    • Front-end react
    • Pagination, refactoring, filtering, sorting

Demonstration

Navigate, Search, Unit Tests

Self Critique

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What did we do well?

  • We did a good job delegating tasks to be done and getting things done in a timely manner
  • Our code is well organized and well documented
  • We have a lot of content about more obscure artists
    • Gotta help out the starving artist
  • The real art was the friends we made along the way

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What did we learn?

  • What a web application is comprised of in terms of front-end and back-end and how the two interact with each other
  • What a RESTful API is and how to write one
  • How to define database models, set up a Postgres database, and manipulate it using SQL and an ORM like SQLAlchemy
  • How to use Javascript and React

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What can we do better?

  • Search
    • Our search time outs for queries with too many results because it does the whole query at once (i.e. query="drawing")
  • Mobile Site
    • Hamburger menu doesn't work
    • On desktop when the window is resized, mobile settings are applied and the paging buttons move to the middle of the screen

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  • Data
    • There weren't many good RESTful API sources for our topic
    • We have limited data on artists and not many well-known artists since our source APIs are limited to the works contained in a specific museum
    • Artists don't have data on all their works, only the works in the museums we scraped
    • We have data on only five museums

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  • Caching
    • Currently our site is constantly making API requests when the page is changed. If we implemented caching on the front-end, then all we would have to do is modify the displayed data upon a page change which would speed things up

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What puzzles us?

  • Search
    • How to search across multiple tables and have the combined results sorted by relevancy (Our method was kind of hacky)
  • Some aspects of using Selenium to test our GUI were confusing
  • Figuring out how to deploy multiple apps to our GCP project was difficult and confusing
  • Javascript is hard :(

Critique of

endangered-animals

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What did they do well?

  • Search results appear very quickly in real time on the model pages
  • Models are rich in information and have good relationships to the other main models
  • The site is very responsive when it comes to filtering and sorting and it loads quickly in general

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What did we learn from their website?

  • Save the animals!!!
  • React-bootstrap-table is cool
    • Search, filtering, and sorting
  • The threat with the highest severity is the abstraction of ground water for agricultural use

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What can they do better?

  • Model Pages
    • Too much data is shown on the model page with multiple instances
    • We think it should be more condensed and expanded upon in the individual instance page, or be formatted so that information does not run off the screen
    • Some images are cut off in the page with multiple models

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Continued

  • Filtering and Search
    • It seems a little bit overkill to have a general search as well as search functions for every attribute of every model
    • It would be nice to be able to search multiple models at once rather than one at a time

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What puzzles us about their website?

  • We couldn't figure out how their API worked because there was no API files in their GitHub. After reading their technical report, it looks like there is an additional "back-end" folder not included in the public repo
  • They have so many JS files, it was hard to understand how their app was structured and their GitHub organization was unclear

Visualization