For the first half of Block 4B’s meeting on February 28th, the class discussed plans for what the website and web application will look like and plans for actually making it. During the second half, the class broke into their groups. The data group continued to go through data for their report. The design group brainstormed sketches for the appearance of the website. The visual aspect of the website will most likely be designed on “Justinmind”, a website that enables web page creation without having to code the visual components in HTML. The coding...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Over the break, a couple members of the programming group met with multiple software engineers to discuss web application development. Currently, the plan is to develop a web app which accesses Fitbit sleep data and displays that information to the user on a website. Therefore, the group realized they needed to learn the best tools and approach to implementing this idea. Throughout this week, members of the group learned how to access Fitbit data, constructed a basic diagram displaying functionality for the web application components, and completed...
Thursday, February 23, 2017
The data analysis group studied the trend of the number of fatigue-related trucking accidents. We analyzed raw data from a survey taken on trucking accidents between 2001 and 2009. The group found the percent of accidents caused by fatigue for each year and created a linear regression analysis. 2008 is an outlier and therefore it was omitted from the next scatterplot we created, which can be seen below. The new scatterplot has a downward linear...
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Class 4B last met on Friday the 17th of February. The class will not meet this coming week as school is out for February break. Project Manager Matt and PR Person Chris spent the majority of class meeting with individual team members to discuss short-term goals and progress mad since the last one-on-one meeting. The html group continued to work on creating a website. Their group will include more members soon; several team members are tasked with learning html over break. The web app group scheduled a meeting with a mentor over the break in order...
Friday, February 17, 2017
At their last meeting, Class 4B began class by responding to an email from Seeing Machines, specifically Guardian, the branch of Seeing Machines that deals with trucking accidents caused by drowsiness. Guardian uses face tracking algorithms to monitor driver fatigue. 4B asked their team questions about how they went about creating their web application, how they tested their product’s effectiveness, and how they market their product to trucking companies. After brainstorming questions for the email response, 4B broke into smaller groups. Project...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Block 4B’s meeting on February 13th was shorter than usual due to a 2-hour delay. The survey group is compiling a survey to ask civilians. They are hoping to start distributing them by the next meeting. The data group is working on a report concerning the crash spreadsheets sent to them by an actuary. One of the programming groups has finished learning html on Codecademy and is working on making the project’s website in html. They are also responding to an email from a professional programmer and local Saratoga resident.
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Friday, February 10, 2017
Block 4B only met once for a full meeting this past week due to school cancellations and school functions.
In order to support the claim that sleep induced trucking accidents are an issue, we have created an anonymous survey directed towards both commercial drivers and civilian drivers. Some of the questions are: how many accidents have they been in? How many were sleep induced? And finally, in their opinion, is falling asleep while driving a pressing issue? Currently, two trucking companies have agreed to administer the survey. We will continue...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Hello! The last month has been a busy time for class 2B. In the past few weeks we have decided to pursue another pathway with our project. The issues we were facing with our previous approach seemed too great to tackle, given both our resources, and our time frame; as a result we have decided to pursue an app/website based approach. We recently held a focus group with local cyclists in order to pick out our feature set, and are currently posting polls to web forums. We hope this app will be able to provide cyclists with the safest possible routes...
Friday, February 3, 2017
Class 4B continued to work in their smaller groups. The coding group is now broken into three sections. One group is learning “HTML” language on Codecademy in order to design a website for the Fitbit app to link to. Another group is coding the actual app in Android Studio. Android Studio is coded in “Java”, which means the first version of the app will be tested only on Samsung phones as apple products work on a type of “R” language. The last group is researching options for a database web hosting service, as the website should store data sent...
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