TAP: TEMPERATURE ANALYZER PROJECT

ADVENTURES IN CPSC 430 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

FAISAL ALBELLAIHI, KRIS HOOKS, BRITTANY RAZE

OUR CLIENT AND HIS RESEARCH

• Dr. Joe Nicholas, Dept. of Geography

• Climatologist

• La Sal Mountain Range, Utah

www.sitesatlas.com

www.umw.edu

www.wikipedia.org

THE DATA• ~ 9 million data points (yikes!) from sensors stationed in La Sal

mountains (Onset Software HOBO sensors)

• temperature readings collected every 10 minutes since 2002, retrieved once a year in a proprietary data format

• field manual

• imported into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and separated by year

• Dr. Nicholas currently performs data analysis in MS Excel; he’s finding this cumbersome

Onset Software

J. Nicholas

THE REQUIREMENTS

Our Client:• needs to be able to analyze data across years

• likes to pull out highs, lows, averages for months, seasons, years and compare

• needs to be able to use his MS Excel spreadsheets as a starting point

• needs to be able to select certain data for analysis, but leave some out

• usually works solo, currently has one student using data

• has no particular desire for a web application

• has no need to make his data public, or share it in any venue

• is interested in potentially uploading data into a Geographic Information System (GIS) ...because ArcGIS is cool.

WHAT’S NEXT?Our Project

• Standalone Software

• Back-end DB

• Interface for creating SQL statements

• Interface for saving in .CSV format for importing into a GIS

• Refine requirements more specifically and follow-up contact w/ client