Agenda:

The signal corps has been going gangbusters, and we've got a most important
decision on our agenda: to decide on the tools with which we will create the
dashboard.  

Visitors/New folks

    Welcome Rachel (and Tim?): DataBloom representatives
    Welcome Ethan? 

Today's business: choosing the Dashboard environment

As of our last meeting, we had two primary competitors for the tool creation
(although Tyler was interested in looking into Tableau).

    R Shiny Dashboard (Danny):
        What are its strengths?

        What are its drawbacks?

        Is it flexible? Easy to add new features? 



		

    Grafana dashboard (Tyler):
        What are its strengths?
        What are its drawbacks?
        Is it flexible? Easy to add new features?
        How well does it connect to R's backend? 

	<p>
	<ul>
	<li> Can't isolate 
	<li> Already has the eye candy
	<li> Easily mobilized
	<li> When it comes to making dashboard public...  must reexecute queries
	<li> Can pull data from all over databases.
	</ul>
	</p>

	<p>
	<ul>
	<li> Tables, 
	<li> Figures, tables, 
	</ul>
	</p>


    Tableau thoughts?

    Beyond the dashboard software itself,
        Scraping the PurpleAir data
            API
            Costs
            Storing the data to the/a database 
        Database
        AQI: Danny's conversion issue 
    This is the fork in the road:
        if we're going away from R Shiny, and into "unknown territory", then we need to make the case (and consider more time deciding on tools);
        if we're going with R Shiny, then we're ready to go. 
    If ready to go, then we need to divy up new tasks for the next week:
        Database: Tyler lead?
        R Shiny: Danny lead?
        Mobile: Ethan lead? and html development
        GitHub repository? 

    Everyone: documentation! :) Let's work within the wiki, unless someone has a better idea.
        Mine the Signal stream so far for links and references.
        Mine the Signal stream for ideas and observations. 

New Business

    How to Get ChatGPT in R with chattr
    Ethan:
        Contact info (other than Signal)
        How would Ethan like to participate? 

Upcoming meetings:

    This Thursday:
        11am: ReNewport group meeting
        1pm: Josh's walking tour? (Do I have that right?) 

    Head's up: Monday, May 20th, 11am: Big group Dashboard meeting, hosted by Kristy

    We'll need to make a 5-10 minute presentation on our progress, and gauge reactions.

    All big group meetings will be at this Zoom link: https://nku.zoom.us/j/9534110091

    (Next big meeting: Tuesday, June 18th, 10 am -- note: hour earlier than usual)
    May 23rd: 1:00 pm meeting with Greg Lemmon 

Todos

    Nelum -- 

    Andy -- 
	<p>
	<ul>
	<li> check on server
	<li> Contact Josh about 1:30 tour
	<li> Contact Kristy
	</ul>
	</p>


    Tyler --
	<p>
	<ul>
	<li>  	GitHub organization
	<li> 		Collect different data sources;
	<li> 		CS about server
	<li> 		Type of database; SQlite
	</ul>
	</p>


    Danny --
	<p>
	<ul>
	<li>     Finalize to confidently PurpleAir equivalent
	<li> 		Plot options
	<li> 		Better plot look
	<li> 		Wait on plot options; shell of options	
	<li> 		Add legend, calendar
	<li> 		Compare locations
	<li>  Get Andy contact info for Ethan
	</ul>
	</p>
		
        Ethan