Week 8 – Final Presentation
"Every member of our team is grateful for the opportunity to work together with such a important issue together with the Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons during this...
Week 7 – Closing it up
"Our program, Luminous is complete and plans for how this type of program can expand in the future is made. We see a great benefit for our sponsor to collaborate with organisations that specialize in this...
Week 6 – Created Program
"Last weeks problems were tackled and a program was made that extract the most important data points. With green and red markings in the excel sheet it is easy for the reader to spot positive and negative changes in the...
Week 5 – Obstacles in the Process
"While moving forward with making a program that extract data points from the TIP report, we came across a few obstacles to tackle before the program could be...
Week 4 – Narrow it Down
"The biggest step for this week was that we took a step away from our map visualization and instead focus on extracting data points to excel sheets. Our goal is to help researchers find their data points easy and help teams that already work with visualizations to...
Week 3 – Data Points of Value
"More time was spent on learning about Natural Language Processing Tools, and also possible Visualization tools. We analyzed the result of our researcher interviews and came up with a list of important data points, from them we choose to move forward with the most...
Week 2 – Learning about possible Tools to use
"Focus was on finding possible tools to use and learn how the TIP reports are used in the workplace. We interviewed researchers that reads through the report daily, and learned more of what type of information they need from the reports. We also researched about...
Week 1 – Getting to Know Our Sponsor
"During our first week in the Hacking for Diplomacy class we had our first meeting with our sponsor and did research about our project. We looked at the TIP reports for the first time and learned important phrases that are used within our...