Anaya Martinez: Environmental Engineering- Week 4

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Hello everyone! Going into week four of my Pinternship. Again, this week was focused on coding and I had some different assignments this week. It was my job to visualize the data collected on buildings in Colorado. By visualizing, it means that I take the data and numbers given to me and put them on a graph. It is not as easy as it sounds, because I just can’t modify a graph. First I have to code a graph, then code the data that is going to be in the graph.

Monday: On Monday, we met with Noah. Noah gave us our tasks for the week, and reminded us that we have a presentation next Tuesday. We just talked about our weekend and what else we are planning to do. Later on, Noah gave another practice run of his qualifying presentation.

Tuesday: On Tuesday, I missed our meeting because of my own dumb mistake. I check my meeting times on my computer, which is still on Colorado time. Colorado is an hour later than Arizona, so when I thought my meeting was at 11am, it was really at 10am. I emailed Professor Landis and Noah a honest apology, and owned up to my mistake. Luckily, Noah told me that I didn’t miss much.

Wednesday: Noah suggested that we run a line of code. I asked what I should do, and he suggested that I work on data visualization. Our meeting ended, but I still had a few questions in  the back of my mind. How do I even code a graph? What applications do I need for this?

Thursday: On Thursday, we had no meeting. So I made it my task to find good applications on which to run Python. At the end of the day, I had a total of 3 different applications downloaded on my computer because I’m not very good at making solid decisions. I tested each out, and ended up liking “Thonny.”

Friday: We had two meetings on this day. The first one was a check-in with Noah, who had emailed me the data I need to input into my graphs. We decided that a bar graph would be best. The next meeting was a group meeting dedicated to talking about our weekend and any ideas we had. After the meetings, I downloaded packages to Thonny to make it possible for me to code graphs. At first, I had my coding skills down. But as it got more complicated, I kept on running into errors. When in doubt, watch YouTube tutorials. And that is what I did for the rest of my Friday evening.

Next week, I will include photos of the code script and bar graph.

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