Hi everyone, this is Batsheva from team eyeData!

This week we discussed our project specifications and what data visualization tools will be most useful for us to develop. We decided to focus on differentiating our tools from the already existing ones, for instance having eyeData offer specific visualization tools for each data set based on the metadata that we will get from Dataverse. We think we will start off focusing on survey data, because that is a lot of the information in the Dataverse.

We also talked about the backend of our project. The team at IQSS wrote the backend and put it up on Github, and by our next meeting on Wednesday we will each have it running locally. Once it’s running locally we will start developing the data visualization tools, developing the basic functionality together at our meeting and then each taking on responsibility for certain visualization tools.

Looking forward to this weeks meeting!
Batsheva Moriarty (Harvard College ’16)