American Physical Society

Week 8

Friday, July 23, 2021

Zeynep Tuna

This week, I finalized the Top Educators Lists and the documentation for the process. As I was starting to work on graphs, something was brought to my attention. Our How Does Your Institution Compare data for 2018 did not include second degrees in physics although the Uberspreadsheet did.

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Hannah Wistrand

Week 7: Figuring it Out

Sunday, July 18, 2021

Hannah Wistrand

This week was a lot of figuring things out. I know, 7 weeks in, I should have it figured out by now, right? 

 

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Week 7: Improvements and Intermittent Interruptions

Sunday, July 18, 2021

Kirk Kleinsasser

This week, I finished my data processing application. I’m very excited, as I found an alternative database system that greatly speeds up queries and is much easier to package into a portable application!

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Week 7: Sometimes numbers speak louder than words

Friday, July 16, 2021

Zeynep Tuna

This week, I continued working on the Top Educators Lists. I completed writing the program that generates the spreadsheet with each institution’s 3-year averages based on the demographic/degree categories decided (yay!).

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Hannah Wistrand

Week 6: Energizing Myself Professionally Through Personal Connections

Sunday, July 11, 2021

Hannah Wistrand

I did it! My first professional presentation! I was pretty nervous, and got little to no sleep the night before, but I did it. I presented to my team of APS Public Engagement and Office of External Affairs members my suggestions on how to move forward with the misinformation campaign.

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Week 6: Progress!

Sunday, July 11, 2021

Kirk Kleinsasser

This week was a busy one! We are getting to crunch time, but I feel somewhat on track with my project. I’m very excited, as I have finished the backbone of code for my project.

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Week 6: Who’s playing in the Top Educators league?

Friday, July 9, 2021

Zeynep Tuna

This week, I started working on the Top Educators lists. In order to create the Top Educators lists for each demographic, I need to use the Überspreadsheet to create a separate sheet with all the institution’s 3-year averages for degrees awarded in physics.

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Hannah Wistrand

Week 5: Qualitative Analysis of People (Can Lead to Better Relationships)

Sunday, July 4, 2021

Hannah Wistrand

This week involved analyzing a lot of different people in a lot of different ways. Now I know that sounds a bit snobby or judgemental but hear me out.

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Week 5: More Bug Hunting!

Sunday, July 4, 2021

Kirk Kleinsasser

This week felt a little slower, as I ran into a fair number of bugs in my project. I managed to finish a major module in my code and make great headway into another! I can now import job data into my program and perform basic searches.

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Week 5: Life is full of surprises!

Friday, July 2, 2021

Zeynep Tuna

At the end of last week, I was quite worried about my process of modifying and debugging the code that adds the new year’s data into the Überspreadsheet.

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