Hello Hubbard Brook Community!
It's time for my yearly call for anyone who might want a web app made with their data. This is year 5! For those who are unfamiliar: every year, I recruit a few Hubbard Brook-affiliated scientists to work with students in my Environmental Data Science capstone class to develop a web-app using their data.
Do you have data that you would like to make more accessible to a broader community? Would it be helpful to have a dashboard you could use to explore some of your data? Do you have an idea for an app, using Hubbard Brook data, that could be used in classrooms? How about a problem I haven't mentioned, that maybe could be solved with an app interface? (Need inspiration?
Here is a comprehensive gallery of what the platform we use can do.)
If so, please reach out! I'll put more details below for those interested, but this is a very low time commitment for you, you get a working web app at the end, and you help some students graduate!
Some examples from class for inspiration:
How this works:
- E-mail me (jpgannon@vt.edu) with your idea(s): fully formed or just "maybe something like this?"
- We will discuss whether the project will work for the learning outcomes of the class.
- If selected, you will meet with the students in class (via zoom) in late January/early February to tell them what you want and explain your data
- I gate keep communication between the students and you. I try to answer any questions first, and we will only reach out to you if it is genuinely necessary
- Meet with the students midway through the semester for a progress update
- Provide feedback on the final draft of the app
- Ideally attend the student presentations at the end of the semester (remotely)
- Use your new app!
Thank you, and I look forward to hearing your ideas!
JP
Dr. J.P. Gannon (he/him)
Collegiate Associate Professor of Environmental Data Science
Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
Virginia Tech