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Midterm presentationMaster Thesis
Oana Şipoş@oanasipos // oanasthesis.wordpress.com
3rd May, 2013Supervisor: Prof. Erik Duval
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GoalsResearch & ImplementationDocumentationDemoDeadlines & RequirementsStatistics
Agenda
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Goals
Thesis•Aggregate the main MOOC players•Implement faceted search
Programming
•Learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails
Personal
•New university•New culture•New country
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MOOC players
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No APIs!
We scrap! [Capybara gem in Rails]
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MOOC Players to Use
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Research of existing solutions
7 subjects23 – 33 years old
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Paper Prototype 1
Option 1 Option 2 Option 3
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Paper Prototype 1
9 subjects23 – 33 years old
Very little space for resultsOrder of the filters
Professor & universitySimply search
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Paper Prototype 2
6 subjects23 – 33 years oldSUS score: 88.3
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Advanced Filters
What to be the first step of a new search?
Should the category be a
filter or not?
No, they should not.
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DocumentationState of the Art
Theoretical Fundamentals
Implementation
Experimental Results
Conclusions
75%
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DEMO
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Deadlines & Requirements
• 29/04 – 5/05• Finish scraping websites• Digital prototype
• 6/05 – 19/05• Implementation of faceted search • Front-end 1.0
• 20/05 – 26/05• Evaluation of faceted search & front-end
• 27/05 – 2/06• Final tests & writing
• 3/06 – 7/06• Final presentation @ KUL
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Activities
Writing & Reflection
Design
Implementation
Research & Learning Ruby & Rails
Deciding the Topic
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Challenges & Lessons learned
• Done is better than perfect!• Don’t be afraid to ask• Best practices don’t care about
programming languages• Ask a coworker from the
‘industry’
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Questions?Comments?Suggestion
s?
Thank you! Dank u! ¡Gracias!