- What did you do this past week?
I worked heavily on the frontend of our project and making the home page look nicer and more professional. I also worked on refining our data for our models since getting our feedback from the last phase. Because our topic does not currently have much information online, it has been very difficult refining our models so that they fit into the requirements, but our TA has given us good advice on how to go about that.
2. What’s in your way?
The only thing in my way is the difficulty to procure data for our models from sources online since there are not many robust resources out there for COVID-19 vaccines data around the world at the moment. I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out web scraping and manually creating CSVs based on data I found online to supplement the data we have pulled form APIs.
3. What will you do next week?
Next week I will continue to work on Phase 3 with my team and making the front end look nicer and making our data more cohesive, less confusing, and more robust.
4. If you read it, what did you think of the Why getter and setter methods are evil?
I thought it was an interesting read and made a lot of sense. I’m wondering if this issue is as big of a deal in Python though, since you do not have to indicate the type of a variable whenever you declare it? I still think it is better design to encapsulate things into modules rather than have the details of your class implementation be exposed, but I’m just wondering if that becomes less of a concern when coding in Python.
5. What was your experience of select, project, cross join and theta join? (this question will vary, week to week)
I feel like I understood this material pretty well. I rewatched the lectures and I now understand relational algebra better and feel comfortable with the material.
6. What made you happy this week?
I’m happy to have hung out with a few friends throughout this week and went to the Farmer’s market yesterday with a friend! The weather has been really nice and I was able to drive home to see my family as well.
7. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
My tip of the week is to work outside whenever you have the chance. I find that working outside especially when the weather is nice really improves my mood and makes me more productive.
