This assignment is due on Monday, Oct 7th by 11:59pm.
The following day (Tuesday) in class you will present your work.
Turn in your homework with a final git push of all materials by the
deadline noted above.
Your presentations will be alloted no more than 3 minutes and you will not present using your own laptop. Your presentation must be in a form that can be displayed on your instructor's system in an open format: either the IPython Notebook or an HTML5-based presentation is preferred: https://www.google.com/search?q=html5+presentations.
You will use the Stat 157 Questionnaire data that you will access using the Google API. Your primary objective is to visualize data from two columns of the spreadsheet data: 1) the column labeled "What is your learning style?" and 2) any other column of your choosing that you feel helps give us insight into the people in the class. Question and clarification.
The data that we have available in the spreadsheet comes from the real world, which means the data is dirty. Your job before you visualize the data is to clean it up and transform it into a form that the analyzers and visualizers in your group can use.
Specifically, this is the data that YOU submitted via the Google Form as part of the Questionnaire for this course so we can better understand you, your skills, and where you're headed after you graduate. All identifying data has been redacted from this data!
The data you use comes from this redacted Google Spreadsheet adapted from the Questionnaire you filled out:
The document has been shared with your @berkeley.edu account ONLY and you must use your bConnected key to access it. You should make sure you can open the above link in your browser to verify you can access the document with your account.
NOTE: Do NOT simply copy & paste or export a CSV file from the document. You must use the provided example IPython Notebook to start with to access the data via the Google API.
You will be graded based on both the product AND the process of your veritcal (4 person) groups.
We will be able to see what you produce, so examining your end product will be our method of determing the portion of your grade based on the end-product itself.
The other portion of your grade will depend on the process of how you arrived at your end-product. Your process MUST be reproducible by someone else without further instructions or help from you. If you cannot fully automate the process, then provide step-by-step instructions.
You will probably have a lot of questions. You may also find a few bugs. Please use the Github Issue Tracker for this repository to ask questions and submit bugs:
https://github.com/stat157/questionnaire/issues
You'll need to follow these steps on your virtual machine to do data wrangling for this assignment:
sudo apt-get install ipython ipython-notebook python-pip
sudo pip install gspread
Then copy the example config file to your home directory, but named
stat157.cfg like this:
cp example.cfg ~/stat157.cfg
Use a programming text editor to edit the example config file
~/stat157.cfg such as:
vi ~/stat157.cfg
Edit the ~/stat157.cfg config file so it will use your full
@berkeley username, e.g.: [email protected]. The password should
be your bConnected key.
NOTE:
- Do NOT put your actual password into example.cfg! And definitely DO NOT check it into github!
- Your new bConnected key should have a minimum length of 9 characters contain English uppercase, lowercase and numeric digits. ( Do not use Non-alphanumeric characters)
UPDATE: You might also be wondering How to save your edit in vi.
Use example.ipynb in this repository as a starting point to access
the Google Spreadsheet data. You should run the IPython Notebook in
your virtual machine using this command:
ipython notebook --no-browser --ip=0.0.0.0
You can auto-generate a .py file from your IPython Notebook using an additional argument:
ipython notebook --no-browser --ip=0.0.0.0 --script
Sometimes it is convenient to easily track changes between versions of your script by checking in changes made to the script in git since the IPython Notebook is hard to inspect using a text editor instead of a browser.
To be successful you will need to collaborate within your horizontal (11 person) AND vertical (4 person) groups.
You have a better chance of succeeding with this assignment by running
git commit frequently on your local system and by running git push
often. If you're not sure what this means or have any questions, use
resources such as GitHub Help, StackOverflow, IRC, and other
resources that we configured in the first weeks of the class.
Keep notes about your process. If you are not able to make your process reproducible by the deadline then you should be able to provide notes about the errors, confusions, and other roadblocks that you encountered.
Also, keep track of those "Aha!" moments and share those with others in the class.