TEMPLE ANALYTICS MERCK CHALLENGE By Team Jeffrey Diana

CONTENTS Introduction Roles and Technologies Data Acquisition & Analysis Visualization Organization Strategy

INTRODUCTION Merck is moving  How will this move affect the employees?  How will commute times change?  Which location would be the best? Approach  Organize data by zip code and organization  Weight each zip code based off of employee numbers  Acquire data using APIs and research  Use visualization libraries in JavaScript to create a compelling narrative

ROLES & TECHNOLOGIES

TEAM ROLES Zack Smith  Backend Development Steve Bergey  Data Acquisition Jeff Diana  Data Analysis Jihun Song  Imagineer

TECHNOLOGIES Backend  Python, Javascript, Bash, Nginx, NodeJS, Flask Frontend  HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap Acquisition and Analysis  Python, Bokeh, Javascript, GMapsJS, Excel Management  Github Everything Else  Emacs

DATA ACQUISITION & ANALYSIS

THE BING API How can we get useful, pertinent data on commute times and locations? Bing API!  Application programming interface  Web-based interface which allows you to work directly with all of Bing’s data  Super simple

COMMUTE TIME ACQUISITION Primary Objective: Get a good data set for average commute times based off of zip codes Solution: Use python!  Break data in to different zip codes  Query Bing API for commute times per zip code  Do the same for organization

WHAT ELSE CAN BING GET US? Commute times are fantastic! How about we get some graphical data? Methodology:  Let’s break down the data the same way as before  Instead of querying the API for time, let’s query it for the route a commuter takes  A ton of points!

A TON OF POINTS ANALYSIS We’ve acquired our data, now what do we do with it? Gmaps Javascript Library  Map Generation  Draw polylines

VISUALIZATION

JAVASCRIPT IS NIFTY! JavaScript is a scripting language similar to Python which is designed to be used with websites Executes client-side Allows neat user interactions On every website, ever

THE DREAM

LET’S MAKE A WEBSERVER JavaScript has server-side applications too  NodeJS Python is easier  Flask We can host our website on a Virtual Private Server (VPS), and anyone in the world can access it  Access to all that beautiful JavaScript  Custom UI  Unique Experience

PORTRAIT OF A SIMPLE WEBSITE Python-Based Web Server Client (Web Browser) Request (HTTP) Response (HTML, CSS, JS)

SERVER-SIDE REQUEST HANDLING

HTML: THE IMPORTANT PARTS

JAVASCRIPT: THE IMPORTANT PARTS

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ORGANIZATION

GITHUB REPOSITORIES We used GitHub to manage all our code  Easy collaboration  Revision Control  Independent branches  Commit Messages

CONCLUSION Project Management is hard  Bring together a lot of conflicting ideas from a lot of different people  Split up tasks effectively  Using time effectively We suck at JavaScript  It’s hard to learn a new technology Expectation Vs. Reality Cleanairfor.me

QUESTIONS? Go ahead, ask me anything.