The midterm presentation for Oana Şipoş's master thesis outlines her goals of researching MOOC players and implementing faceted search using Ruby on Rails. The document details the project's timeline, including deadlines for scraping websites, developing a digital prototype, and evaluating the search functionality. Key insights include the necessity of asking for help and focusing on completing tasks rather than achieving perfection.

1. Midterm presentation
Master Thesis
Oana Şipoş
@oanasipos // oanasthesis.wordpress.com
3rd May, 2013
Supervisor: Prof. Erik Duval

2. Goals
Research & Implementation
Documentation
Demo
Deadlines & Requirements
Statistics 2
Agenda

3. 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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4. MOOC players
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5. 5
No APIs!
We scrap!
[Capybara
gem in Rails]

6. MOOC Players to Use
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7. Research of existing solutions
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7 subjects
23 – 33 years old

8. Paper Prototype 1
Option 1 Option 2 Option 3
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9. Paper Prototype 1
9 subjects
23 – 33 years old
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Very little space for results
Order of the filters
Professor & university
Simply search

10. Paper Prototype 2
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6 subjects
23 – 33 years old
SUS score: 88.3

11. Advanced Filters
What to be the first step of a new search?
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Should the
category be a
filter or not?
No, they should
not.

12. 12
Documentation
State of the Art
Theoretical Fundamentals
Implementation
Experimental Results
Conclusions
75%

13. DEMO
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14. 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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15. Activities
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Writing & Reflection
Design
Implementation
Research & Learning Ruby
& Rails
Deciding the Topic

16. 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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17. Questions?
Comments?
Suggestions?
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Thank you! Dank u! ¡Gracias!