CS373 Spring 2021: Tim Nguyen
Week 12
1. What did you do this past week?
This past week, I worked on filtering our data and our provider data for the visualizations in phase IV. I also managed to get our Bubble Chart and Radar graph working, so I’m pretty happy about that. We’re almost done with the visualizations and we just need to clean them up UI-wise. I also focused on the iOS app I’ve been working on for my other class.
2. What’s in your way?
I don’t think is in my way. I feel like there’s starting to become less work for me to worry about since most of the website is complete and the app I’ve worked on as well.
3. What will you do next week?
Next week, I will publish my iOS app called the “WikiRacer Game” on the App Store, which is based on the Wikipedia game where you navigate from a starting Wiki article to a target Wiki article using only the Wiki links to other articles. Other than that, I’ll look at cleaning up our website, restructuring our repo, and preparing for a video presentation for phase IV.
4. If you read it, what did you think of the What Happens to Us Does Not Happen to Most of You?
I actually was about to not read this paper, but it was an important topic for me to read about it. Women face so many challenges not only in the workplace but in society. I can’t imagine what they have to go through being undermined by men constantly. It’s disgusting really because I know that it happens at tech companies. I worked in HR at a previous internship and I focused on diversity and inclusion. One of the projects involved discrimination women face in the workplace and I heard many negative experiences from female co-workers in the conversations and interactions they had with male co-workers, especially higher-ups. I acknowledge that this is a big problem in the tech industry and I hope that we, even as individuals, do more as a whole to combat this major issue.
5. What was your experience of joins and refactoring? (this question will vary, week to week)
I think joins wasn’t that bad to learn the way that Professor Downing explained it. Of course, it was a bit overwhelming with the different types of joins, but it started becoming easier once we saw more examples. Refactoring is pretty intuitive with the exercise that we did, but I hope to see some more ways to refactor and improve code for readability and efficiency.
6. What made you happy this week?
I finished watching season 2 of My Hero Academia! Now, I’m trying to catch up and finish the next season. Other than that, I’ve worked out most of this week except the day it rained because it was too gloomy. I’m also looking forward to graduation soon and can’t wait to have my parents be there.
7. What’s your pick-of-the-week or tip-of-the-week?
If you’re looking to use a Bubble Chart, I recommend using: https://github.com/weknowinc/react-bubble-chart-d3
It was literally plug-and-play, but I also want to say that you may have to downgrade your “react” and “react-dom” versions in your package.json file. We had problems with component mounting and downgrading allowed it to work for some reason.
Thanks for reading and I hope you have a wonderful week!
