Participated in project from Stage 3 to Stage 5
(CST Project Stages)
Technologies & Tools learned and applied
- Google Cloud Platform -- cloud hosting, Google software tools
- Google BigQuery -- data analysis platform**
- BLS.gov -- job and career statistics, data source
- PostgreSQL -- database management
Soft Skills learned and applied
- Logical Thinking
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Willing to learn
Primary Tasks
- Researched API data sources and presented in team discussions
- Researched database technologies and initiated database schema development
- Represented STEM-Away at Santa Clara Convention Event for outreach
Tasks by stage highlighted below:
- First All-Team Meeting
- Assigning Tasks
- Researching
- Google Cloud Platform
- Data sources (API’s)
- Database technologies
- Web App technologies
- Visualization Tools
- Team Discussions
- Django or Flask (web app)
- BLS, CareerOneStop, Indeed API, Glassdoor API, or something else (data sources)
- PostgreSQL or mySQL (database)
- Data Studio, Pandas, Google API’s, Big Query, a combination, or something else (visualization)
Note: By now the whole team understands STEM-Away’s mission and the details of our specific project. We have researched, discussed, and decided which options suit the project best.
- Showcasing STEM-Away at Santa Clara Convention Center
- Asana, new project management structure created
- Weekly All-Team Meetings
- Creating the Python-Django virtual environment and web application skeleton
- Deploying to GCP
- Choosing/Researching visualization chart types
- Dashboard UI Prototype
- Making a request to BLS API
- Weekly All-Team Meetings