A6TEAM_AWESOME

A6TEAM_AWESOME

To-Do

1. study the document “Projects for the HCC Foundation Course” (in “Students’ Projects” on the Wiki)
2. select a project that is of real interest to you
3. find collaborators and form a group of peers (such a group may already exist) with whom you will work on the project
4. sign up for the project (if it is still available) on the site “Students’ Projects”
5. identify parts of the project and an initial role distribution between your team members
6. each team member should contribute
   1. a brief rational what she/he finds interesting
   2. what she/he plans to do to get started on the project

Which project did you select?

Project-1: Warehouses with Interactive Content

Describe the parts of the project you have identified and the initial role distribution among your team members

Main areas to explore: system architecture (ie how does netflix distribute streaming content?), usability (how to make large amounts of content accessible? netflix queue, youtube suggestions, search...), dynamic elements (users upload videos, rate movies etc), how well do companies accomplish their goals?

For each team member, provide a brief rational what she/he finds interesting

Ian: There are many aspects of this project that are interesting to me. First off, presenting such an enormous amount of content to the user in an efficient way is a huge challenge and I want to study the best practices of doing so. I would also like to investigate the architecture of warehouse-style systems and see how companies manage to get such large amounts of data distributed.

For each team member, provide a statement of what she/he plans to do to get started on the project

Ian: I'd like to get started by looking in general at accessibility of large warehouses of content, in particular things like the Netflix suggestion algorithm, YouTube suggestions etc.