PopTopic.org

Our Group:

Drew Dearing: Server Manager and Frontend Developer
Gerlou Shyy: API Specialist
Daniel Olmos: Python Developer and Database Designer
Kylie Sanderson: React Developer and Designer
Daniel Talamas: Python Developer

Demonstration

This website categorizes books, movies, and music by topic/subject to show related media and correlations between popular media and popular topics. For example, topics will have a number of media links to show how prominent a topic/subject is in media. It can be used for market research when creating a song/movie/book to see if a topic has been covered in a medium, or to see if a topic is currently trending.
Link: http://poptopic.org

Unit Tests: Backend

Unit Tests: Frontend

Unit Tests: API

Self Critique

What did we do well?

We did a good job choosing a topic early, and we were good about meeting often and coordinating. We believe the website was very user friendly and well-designed.

What did we learn?

We learned how to use a lot of new tools we weren't familiar with before
We also believe this project was a valuable experience for us to have

What can we do better?

Could have done a better job planning out what time we want to meet by making plans earlier, instead of on the day of so we could prepare more.
Mocha and and/or filtering for model specific attributes
Grid pages could scale better in responsive design

What puzzles us?

We were puzzled by how much media falls under so few topics; there were a lot more connections than we would've guessed when we first started

Other Critique

What did they do well?

Good idea for a site
Good UI - easy to navigate
For their cities page, we like that they have a map for each city
As customers, we felt that our feedback was always welcome and appreciated.

What did we learn?

Learned about the possible flights to various destinations
Took a look at these destinations in real time to see what's going on there.
They helped us implement filtering (using react-select) and how they were able to change the grid pages based on that filtering by using child-relationships between JS classes and passing functions through props.

What they could do better

The filtering could be nicer and easier to use
We think their website could be a little more visually appealng
The documentation for their API was a bit confusing and unclear. We were also disappointed filtering was only implemented for a handful of features for the webcams.

What puzzles us about their website

As said before, there is not much that puzzles us
We wonder why locations with no incoming or outgoing flights are included in the website