Following up on previous updates (April 1, Feb 28), here’s another summary of what’s been unfolding with my capstone project work:
Progress
- April was a very full month, focused almost entirely on building the first version of the tool we’d planned, delivering it to Simon and team for testing, open sourcing and publishing the software code for the tool, discussing and clarifying feedback received from Simon and team, and then refining and re-delivering.
- As another side project, I also had the opportunity to create a CrowdTangle API Library in PHP, and the folks at Meta/CrowdTangle are considering it for inclusion in their documentation for CrowdTangle so it could be used by others.
- Although I’ve made the source code for the tool public via a public GitHub repository, it doesn’t include the full “changelog” history of the work I did up to that point, so I shared that separately in a post here.
Plans
- Per the original project timeline, I’ll be shifting in to compiling and writing up summaries, analysis, project reviews and related discussion, as well as creating a video walkthrough or presentation, as a part of the final project deliverables.
- As needed, I’ll make myself available to Simon and team for continued refinements or questions about the tool as they increase their usage of it in the daily news harvest workflow.
Problems
- Carried over from last month, the Bloomfield team has had some challenges locating and contacting additional stakeholders for me to interview (at least one representative reader of the Daily Bulletin, and one person who has provided financial support to the project). Still hoping and expecting to be able to complete these conversations soon.
