Hi everyone,

First, props to anyone who has stuck with our adventure thus far. We appreciate the readership!

This week, some of the mentors were out of town, so instead of a discussion meeting, we had a work session. We were successful this week with developing an understanding of how our various parts integrate together: the UI has to allow users to select variables, which tells the data manipulation module what to select, which is passed to the visualizing function which passes the graph to the UI… It requires a lot of prior coordinating and planning, so that’s part of what we focused on this week.

What has been challenging is navigating the Django framework and understanding where  the various functions that we write belong. Some of us are new to it, so we’re trying to grasp what’s going on when it loads the page and how we fit into it. Shouldn’t be too challenging, though!

With the final presentation coming in less than a month, all our efforts are focusing on cleaning up the UI and generating the visualization. It’s gonna be great!

Best,

Alex