Miscellaneous

Meeting Minutes

Below is a summary of each of the supervisor meetings that took place after the summer examinations.

Meeting 1:

Date: 8th June 2016 (10:30)

Content: Discussed what would be completed for the early deliverable (due 27th June).

Action item(s): Complete and submit the early deliverable. Details listed below:

  1. Specification detailing the requirements of the application

  2. Risk assessment listing both the risks and ways to mitigate each of them as much as reasonably possible.

  3. A basic, dynamically updating visualisation that makes use of the services that are likely to be used for the main project. Referred to as "Proof of Concept" in the rest of the documentation. Including the following:

    • Twitter API
    • Google App Engine
    • A JavaScript library for graphs (d3.js or Chart.js are possible choices)
    • Bootstrap


Meeting 2:

Date: 7th July 2016 (11:00)

Content: Feedback about the early deliverable provided, discussed the next stages of the project.

Action item(s): Begin to design the project, including creating an estimated timeline.


Meeting 3:

Date: 14th July 2016 (13:00)

Content: Reviewed the estimated timeline. Discussed the requirements for the dissertation and possible visualisations that could be produced.

Action item(s): Continue with project design, produce sketches of proposed system to discuss next time.


Meeting 4:

Date: 28th July (13:00)

Content: Reviewed sketches created, discussed possible visualisations further.

Action item(s): Continue with project development, aim for a (close to) completed application ready for the next meeting.


Meeting 5:

Date: 15th August (11:00)

Content: Reviewed status of the application. Discussed current issues with Twitter's data regarding the world map.

Action item(s): Complete the application, continue with testing.


Meeting 6:

Date: 22nd August (14:00)

Content: Failed to show the current application status as it was unable to connect to Twitter. Further discussed the status of the application and corpus.

Action item(s): Complete the application and accompanying documentation.


Meeting 7:

Date: 24th August (12:00)

Content: Discussed the current status of the application and accompanying documentation, talked about a few changes to be made to improve the project (listed below).

Action item(s): Complete and submit corpus, continue working on the dissertation. Application improvements to be made:

  1. Add in the line graph similar to the early deliverable.

  2. Fix axis label styling.

  3. Add a live count of the number of tweets with a location to the summary function.


Meeting 8:

Date: 30th August (12:00)

Content: [TBA - After corpus deadline]

Action item(s): [TBA - After corpus deadline]