Week 5 - Interface design & group meeting

Week 5, I spent most of my time working on the csv parser and revising my code. Nothing really exciting happened this week; I mainly worked on refining my previous work. I talked to Jesse, who wanted me to present my progress at the group meeting on Friday. Since my midterm presentation was next week, this was a good opportunity to practice for that. I made some mockup images of the web interface for the presentation to give a general visual demonstration on the functionality. At the group meeting, I had a lot of positive feedback from some of the scientists. Many thought that it would be a very useful tool, as it simplified the process of generating plots (as to not require coding), and since many of them worked with csv files. Dr. Baptista did suggest to add more informational about the scientific context of the plots for my presentation next week. For a broader audience, it was important to elaborate on the importance of the web interface being an enabling technology, so scientists who did not have access to the tools to generate these plots could now do with ease.