Project Meeting 12/7

[JacobAluise]

Meeting Overview

In our final meeting we discussed what needed to be completed in time for our presentation on Friday December the 9th, and what each member of the group would be working towards for our final submission on December 16th

The Final Meeting

During our time together in our final meeting we discussed Allison's SVG that was used in the creation of our first stacked bar chart, did some debugging to get it in working order, and then divided up who would talk about what during our presentation on Friday December 9th. It was decided that Matt would handle the general introduction to our project as well as discussing the reading view, Allison would take the lead on explaining our markup methodology as well as some of the analysis, and I would handle our analysis along with Allison as well as our initial conclusions surrounding our data. We also decided that I would mention some of the snags we hit along the way with out research, such as the limitations of our corpus, the presence of censorship and the idea that these men wouldn't exactly be sending demure letters home to their loved ones as that would be counterintuitive to morale. Finally, we closed the meeting by discussing when we could all meet during finals week to finish out what needed to be done for the project, as well as divvy up the work that still needs completed before out final deadline.

Tasks to be completed for The Presentation

• Finish the Java Script for our reading view
• Associate images with the Home, Methodology and Analysis pages
• Have one of our stacked bar charts completed

Tasks as we approach the deadline

• Write out our final conclusion
• Create a second stacked bar chart
• Get Flexbox working on the Letters page
• Create a bibliography for the Home page
• Read over the project checklist to ensure completion of the project's requirements

[CarolineMcDonough]

Your finished website is remarkable! The stacked bar chart in particular was an excellent design choice for the types of data you sought to display, as it made the trends through the years much more visible than they may have been with traditional bars or even other specialty graphs like butterfly bar graphs.

I also appreciate that you're forthcoming with your readers about the snags you hit in your progress, especially in terms of how the censorship you discovered undoubtedly changed the data you would've had access to, and therefore your output is not simply a depiction of the morale and messages of soldiers through the war but is complicated by active suppression of one of the types of data you were collecting.

Overall, this was a beautifully constructed, well-designed, and elegantly executed idea and website, great job!