User talk:Nicolekalcic

Week 11 Team Page Feedback (to address in Week 12)

You covered some of the basics for your team page, but some specifically requested items were missing:

• You need to add a category with your team's name, i.e., "Page Desiigner".
• Please remove the category "Assignment" from your page/template.
• Arash's executive summary should provide a link to his Week 11 individual assignment page.

In addition, for Week 12, let’s focus on the stated overall purpose of these pages: “This page will be the main place from which your team project will be managed. Include all of the information/links that you think will be useful for your team to organize your work and communicate with each other and with the instructors. Hint: the kinds of things that are on your own User pages and on the course Main page can be used as a guide.”

Considering that purpose (and hint), you will also want to include the following on your team page. Imagine yourselves in deep work mode, with your team page open in a window. What information, links, and resources will you want to have available on that page at all times? Here are a few items:

• A projected schedule with due dates (both for milestones already defined in the guild pages and for internal accomplishments that your team determines) and meeting times. You can cross off these dates and times as your team makes progress using the s tag (strikeout).
• Communication resources (e.g., additional channels like Slack; GitHub issues; the discussion “side” of various wiki pages; etc.) that your team can use to coordinate when not face-to-face
• A section with links to uploaded files (including the journal club presentations), particularly for use by data analysts but really for any member of the team; this can also include a link to your GitHub branch and the project’s fork
• Additional useful links—what links would be useful to always have there so that you can just click to visit them, minimizing typing? You did include the Template:GRNsight Gene Page Project Links, but then redundantly added a separate list of guild links.
• Finally, having consistent formatting for the executive summaries and reflections will improve the look and organization of your page. Hayden and Arash should fix the formatting of their bullet points.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 13:53, 16 November 2017 (PST)

Week 11 Feedback

• "Good habit" item notes:
  • The electronic laboratory notebook is fairly brief and only covers the design/development term section.
• Design or development term notes
  • All ten terms are defined with cited sources as specified by the instructions. Some good concepts and technologies there!
• Article outline notes
  • Outline was 1 page long in print preview.
  • No explicit statement on the overall importance of significance of the article's content could be found. There are some notes on the importance/significant of particular items, but not of the work as a whole.

—Dondi (talk) 18:14, 9 December 2017 (PST)

Week 9 Feedback

• The “good habit” aspects of your individual journal are on-time, and almost fulfilled. The references list only includes the Week 9 assignment; this particular assignment references API documentation as well, at the very least.
• The electronic notebook has decent detail and is well-integrated with the GRNsight testing and API exploration results.
• GRNsight testing is complete with clear feedback on the results.
• The overall process for going from the gene symbol to the final gene data, with the necessary substitutions, is completely and correctly specified. There is, however, a slight typo in the explanation where Homo sapiens and Saccharomyces cerevisiae are referred to as genes instead of species.

Shared Journal

Questions and “good habit” aspects are all fulfilled, all on-time. Favorite pages are stated alongside the reasons for these preferences.

—Dondi (talk) 19:15, 23 November 2017 (PST)

Week 7 Feedback

• The “good habit” aspects of your individual journal are mostly on point except that your references were somewhat minimal—you definitely used more sources in this assignment than just the instructions page. Your electronic notebook has a moderate amount of detail.
• Nearly all prior web page issues were addressed except for the labeling issues: gene names and IDS either remain unlabeled or require a tooltip. Although the design has a certain simplicity, note that informativeness is the primary goal of the page.
• Bootstrap grid layout and flex classes were seen, though used somewhat subtly, and the flex usage was taken purely from the starter code.
• The use of collapse is noted as one of the requested “advanced Bootstrap” features.
• The use of tooltips is noted as the other “advanced Bootstrap” feature.
• The XML and JSON API calls were adapted correctly.

Shared Journal

Questions and “good habit” aspects are fulfilled, all on-time. It’s good to hear that you are appreciating both the interdisciplinary and the collaborative aspects of the course. It can be challenging, but I think the rewards are commensurate to that challenge.

—Dondi (talk) 22:17, 20 November 2017 (PST)

Week 5 Feedback

(work in progress)

Shared Journal

Questions and “good habit” aspects are all sufficiently fulfilled; thank you!

—Dondi (talk) 19:08, 21 October 2017 (PDT)

Week 4 Feedback

Individual Journal

• You’ve gotten a lot of the “good habit” tasks down, with the exception of getting all of your work in before the due date; it’s close (last edit at 12:06am) but unfortunately the wiki tells all…
• Your lab notebook is in an easy-to-understand chronological format with good detail for what's there; however, it's a little too focused on just how you and your homework partner coordinated your work—ideally, it also includes details on how you approached the assignment work itself, including what you individually did and how you went about putting the requested content together.
• Your acknowledgments and references were as requested except that the database citations were links alone; all items in a formal references section should use a full citation style.

Shared Journal

• All questions and “good habit” points are fulfilled except for the aforementioned due date, with edits coming in up to 12:27am.
  • Note that the standard library you used here does have a name: Bootstrap.
  • Indeed I don’t think Sir Berners-Lee anticipated that web browsers would have as much functionality as they do today.

Web Page

(both homework partners get the same feedback)

Most gene page requirements were fulfilled except:

• Filenames and title element weren’t customized to your chosen gene
• A separate gene summary paragraph was seen, and contains appropriate content for a summary
• The gene names and IDs are nicely presented but not clearly labeled—remember that for pages like this, clarity and information availability are as important (or perhaps more so) than aesthetics
• Making gene IDs available only via tooltip hampers the information access somewhat; the best of both worlds is a visually pleasing presentation alongside a seamlessly effective conveyance of information
• Your gene image looks appropriate but unless one is a total yeast specialist, it can use a figure caption
• The references section is always meant to look like a formal citation; supplying just a link is insufficient

—Dondi (talk) 22:32, 10 October 2017 (PDT)

Week 3 Feedback

You certainly were off to a good start, setting up your individual journal page with the right “good habit/best practice” instructions for all individual journal entries. However, you either ran out of time or were quite stuck. Please come to one of our office hours so that we can discuss and try to act upon any difficulties that you might be encountering.

—Dondi (talk) 23:59, 23 September 2017 (PDT)

Week 2 Feedback

• Thank you for turning in your assignment on time.
• You wrote something in the summary field for 20 of 51 saves (39%) in the period of review; since you had only received the feedback about frequency after you submmitted this assignment, I am expecting that this number will be improving in subsequent weeks.
• You made 20 saves to your Week 2 journal entry, which is at the high end of the range expected for this assignment.
• Your complementary DNA sequence was correct.
• Your translations were correct.
• Your determination of which frames contained ORFs was correct.
• One correction to your nomenclature: we do not specify the ends of proteins as 5' and 3', that only refers to DNA and RNA. Instead, the ends of proteins are referred to as N-ter (or amino-terminus) and C-ter (or carboxy-terminus).
• For your References section, please provide the full APA citation style for all of your references and be careful to be using the correct link syntax.
• I did not find any electronic lab notebook for this assignment. In this case, the lab notebok would have explained how you arrived at your answers to the questions posed in the exercise. Please be sure to keep your electronic lab notebook for future assignments.
• Actually, the genetic code was cracked closer to 50 years ago--that article is a little dated. The technical language in articles from the primary literature is definitely a hurdle for students (and even for faculty from a different field), but keep with it. Like with other fields of endeavor, it is good to take a look at the primary source.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 11:36, 20 September 2017 (PDT)

Week 1 Feedback

• Thank you for completing the assignment on time.
• You completed all of the required content and skills except for the following list. You have the opportunity to make up the points you have lost on this assignment by completing the changes requested by the Week 3 journal deadline.
  • Please include Biological Databases course you are taking right now as your list of upper division courses (since it is the only one). You could include your other upper divisions if you want since you are neither a biology or computer science major.
  • We did not receive an e-mail from you regarding your worries/concerns or if there was anything else you wanted us to know. Please send us both an e-mail, even if your answer to both questions is “no”.
  • You wrote something in the summary field for 13 of 18 saves, or 72%. We would like to see this approach 100%.
  • We would like you to stay away from using “----“ to create sections on your page, and simply use the header system of ==, ===, ====. The plain line should be used sparingly, for special use cases.
  • Please use either numbered or bulleted lists when you need to make a list. For example, you used “-“ in your Education section. When you use * or #, MediaWiki will use proper indents and align the lines for you. I did not see an actual numbered list on your page.
  • You created your template, and invoked it on your page. However, it seems like you have not added your Week 2 links to the template, but to your user page itself. You should add that information to your template, so that any page where your template is invoked will automatically be updated with that content. The category “Journal Entry” should be added to your template instead for the same reason.
• Including your artwork on the page is great! However, this is a situation where you may want to consider protecting your intellectual property. All content on this wiki is considered to be considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, which means that someone else can redistribute it without your permission, as long as it is attributed to you. You may or may not want this. We can discuss the implications further if you wish.
• I answered your question on my User talk page.

— Kdahlquist (talk) 13:40, 12 September 2017 (PDT)