Week 4 Team Meeting Minutes

Tuesday, 22 May 2018, 1pm

Discussion

• Established a timeline: 2 weeks left for product, 3 weeks for presentation
• Continue the code reviews, push frequently, small branches, as this has been helping the quality of the code
• We need to start documenting code with doc comments, to be prepared for handover
• Improve unit and integration testing
• Get user feedback ASAP with prototype, write it all up, and make required changes
• A/B testing for selection method, auto-opening, and other contentious issues
• Ask Microsoft: how to pitch this to non-tech?
• Find out who will be marking the various components

Ideas about the Hackbooth / presentation

• It is difficult for non-tech audiences to really understand what the point of this is, and those who mark it will probably wonder the same. the project doesn't speak out for itself, so we need to present it properly.
• Use a flowchart to show what all the technical steps are from code on the left to output on the right (interpreter, user interaction, webview, html renderer, etc)
• Showcase all features. look through all the code and find what details make it great
• It's open source, extensible, maintainable, dev-friendly: talk about the frameworks that we used (angular, jupyter, ipython), bleeding edge tech
• Be prepared to answer questions about its usefulness
• Why is it better than terminal?
• Why is it different from jupyter?
• How does it improve the life of a data scientist?
• Tell them that if it looks simple, it's a good thing: it's polished, it becomes transparent to the user so that they can focus on their task and not on the program
• It's not meant to wow the user with big things. it's meant to wow them in the small things, because it "just works"
• Talk about the ux perspective and how we arrived at the design that we achieved
• Markers will want to know that it really helps data scientists. Explain to them what a data scientist is and does, and show how it helps them.
• Prepare a "tutorial" sort of thing, with small snippets of code
• Video loop for the hackbooth?

Next Steps

• Microsoft have been in touch and we have arranged a meeting with them for Wednesday 30th May to discuss our progress and obtain feedback on our prototype alpha extension.

Next meeting: Tuesday 29th May