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Semester Long Web API Project: NYC OpenData Application

For my MIS2402 class, I had a project where I had to create a dynamic web-based chart of API data that was interesting to me. What resulted from my project was an application that created two dynamic web-based charts, one that was a pie chart, and the other was a line chart. This project helped me improve my use of the Javascript function .getJSON to get data from API data, but it also helped me learn how to turn data that is not immediately usable into data that will work with functions like .sort. I also learned how to use the ImageCharts API, which will probably be useful to me in the future as well.

Here is the link to my project in the misdemo website. https://misdemo.temple.edu/tuo26034/SEMESTER_PROJECT1/

Here is the link to my project on Github, where you can access a README explaining more in depth what my project is about.  https://github.com/dskliang/MIS2402

 

 

API Project

  1. In this project, our goal was to cumulatively test HTML and Javascript skills learned in MIS 2402. I had to know how to extract information from .json files and serialize that data so that it could be utilized by an Image Charts API to show the desired graphs of trends and compositions of the data. In my project, I explored the relationship between the number of students schools sent to take the SAT and their respective mean math SAT scores. I utilized a second API to explore the average SAT score of schools by each reading, writing, and math section.
  2. Link to Final Application
    1. Username: tuk50041
    2. Password: 489catEgorY53
  3. Link to GitHub Repository

 

API Project

Spring 2022 – MIS2402

Professor Konstantin Bauman

The goal of this project was to create a simple application that uses Web APIs. I retrieved data from website and JSON file, which I used the most in the JavaScript code in order for the application to work. The html and JavaScript code in this project were all the topics I’ve learned from the course MIS2402. Topics such as JavaScript functions, conditional statements, arithmetic expressions and loops.

The application shows two charts, one to show differences between amount of sidewalk cafes in each New York areas. The other shows the differences and number of active and inactive sidewalk cafes.

The link (Github) shows the html code for the website as well as access to the charts.

Class server Link

Class API Project MIS2402

My goals for this project was to learn about APIs and how they can been used alongside of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. My results for the project were that I was able enhance my coding skills and use another source to post and display data. I learned how to use JQuery, Bootstrap, and incorporate Single Page Architecture into my created website. My compressed zip file for the website is below.

api_phase_6

MIS 2402 PRO Points project (Covid-19 Stats)

  1. The end goal for this particular project is to use Jquery, loops, conditional statement and functions to retrieve appropriate information from a JSON objects on a given URL (misdemo) and display them. After doing this project, I feel more confident that I can apply what I have learned to actual codes. Specifically, I adjusted a conditional statement in the codes that eliminates the null values that are associated with the numerators of fractions that calculate the recovery rate of Covid-19 cases in different countries. In the same manner, I also eliminate the arrays that have names of continents as names of countries, and the results with the total number of cases, so that I can display the results of countries with most cases, most deaths and most new cases correctly without having confusing results. Last but not least, I used bootstraps to add CSS classes to the information retrieved from the JSON arrays to set the tone for the information displayed (for example, high recovery rate is green and low recovery rate is red).All in all, this project has effectively increase my confidence and harden my JavaScript skills.
  2. Attached here is the URL to my work: http://misdemo.temple.edu/tul43068/PRO_point_project/index%201.html
  3. Attached here is the URL to the project options: https://community.mis.temple.edu/mis2402sec002fall2020/about/mis-pro-points-project/
  4. Once approved, the description is automatically displayed in a post on your e-portfolio.

Web API Covid Data

This project is meant to summarize the teachings of MIS 2402, Web Applications Development, in a single page. For this code, I worked in JavaScript using elements like functions, loops, conditional statements, and jQuery. I enjoyed working with a relevant dataset like this and learning a bit about how other countries are handling the pandemic.

My project can be found at this link.

New Digital Systems course teaches all business students how to code

WebAPI

Last year, the MIS department began previewing several redesigned courses, and this fall the new curriculum has been officially rolled out in full. The introductory course, Digital Systems, teaches basic programming skills to all business students, regardless of major. It’s a new approach that will give Fox students a competitive edge after graduation.

“There’s been a push that MBAs should know how to code, and we’re bringing that thinking to our undergradates,” says David Schuff, Professor and Chair of the Department of Management Information Systems. “Some other business school programs start with basic computer literacy, but we’re asking, ‘What’s the next generation of tools and skills?’”

Digital Systems provides an overview of how businesses use technology in today’s economy. The first two-thirds of the course help students get a grasp of the big ideas in an active learning environment. Through hands-on, in-class assignments, students practice applying the concepts they’re learning, including programming.

“It represents a shift from a project-management focus to a product-management focus,” says Schuff.

Steven SclarowDuring the final third of the course, students learn to code using JavaScript to build a digital product of their own. Their final project challenges students to make a tool that can rank potential investors in a fictional firm in terms of various functions like income, assets, and debt. “Their job is to write those functions,” says Steven Sclarow, Assistant Professor of MIS and the course coordinator.

“In the past, coding assignments taught concepts without putting the business perspective on it,” says Sclarow. “Our approach uses an overarching narrative throughout the course to help students see how it relates to them and digital product management,” he says.

The prospect can be daunting for some students, especially outside MIS, but completing the project gives them not only important new skills, but also confidence. And for MIS students, this introduction prepares them expertly for what’s to come: more advanced courses on API-based software development, user experience, and cybersecurity.

“The new Digital Systems course is the latest example of how Temple’s MIS department prepares students for the workforce,” says Bruce Fadem, chair of the IT Advisory Board and retired VP and CIO of Wyeth.

“All business students are going to encounter digital systems, no matter what job they have,” says Sclarow. And Schuff emphasizes this point: “If you’re in accounting or finance, you might have a need to do process automation. In marketing, you might need to manipulate data to do analyses. Programming is becoming an essential tool to do these things yourself.”

COVID-19 Data Display

  1. Goals
    1. Use Javascript, AJAX, JSON, JQuery, HTML, and CSS to retrieve COVID data from an API and display it on a single page application.
  2.  Results
    1. I created a webpage with four main sections: a header, overview page, country data display, and a display for a few lists. I used the getJSON function to retrieve data from the array, iterate through the data, and display the data in lists, strings, or buttons.
  3. Project URL
    1. http://misdemo.temple.edu/tuj65429/COVID-19/
  4. What I learned
    1. I greatly improved my understanding of coding a single page application and interacting with APIs and datasets. Many of the functions in the page were challenging to plan, code, and execute. I also enhanced my understanding of organizing objects and sections using HTML and styling with CSS/Bootstrap. Overall, this project really challenged my ability to consolidate the concepts I’ve learned into a singular, cohesive work.

Courses give MIS undergrads an edge in the API economy

WebAPIThis semester, the MIS major introduces exciting new content to prepare students for the emerging API economy. A three-course series emphases application development and cloud software deployment, enhancing learning while building skills and confidence. “This sequence emphasizes the interconnectedness of the information. Now it’s not like three 15-week courses, it’s like a single 45-week course that goes from one semester to the next,” says professor Jeremy Shafer, who teaches both the first and third courses in the series.

Jeremy Shafer

The first course introduces cloud application programming and JavaScript, but it provides a more holistic view than typical JavaScript classes. This course introduces the idea that a programmer can reach into the cloud for an API and use it in the application at hand. “There’s the code you write, and then there are the resources out there in the cloud for you to bring in and leverage,” says Shafer.

The second course explores networking basics and cloud platforms. “We teach them how to build a very simple API and deploy it on the infrastructure they build,” says David Schuff, professor and chair of the MIS Department, who teaches a section of this course.

Professor Mart Doyle also teaches this second course. “But it’s in the third course that students really bring everything together,” says Doyle. “In the final course, we write an API from scratch. If you understand both halves of the process, and you can put your own API endpoint out in the cloud, there’s nothing you can’t build,” says Shafer.

One powerful shift that separates the Fox School from a typical MIS curriculum is the use of JavaScript across the sequence. “If you use a different computer language in every course, you spend a lot of instructional time just getting used to the language. By investing in one language across the three courses, we give introductory instruction once and build on it,” says Shafer.

A focus on the API economy also unifies this series. Modern businesses mix and match APIs with their own custom-coded tools to solve problems. “It’s no longer a choice between building it all from scratch or buying something out of the box,” says Schuff. Through this series, students learn the end-to-end process. “They learn the business thinking behind it,” says Schuff.

This sequence gives students a number of advantages after graduation. “Our students can have an insightful conversation about how to leverage the cloud to deploy APIs and how to design an application that scales,” says Doyle.

“Students who go through this sequence are coming away with something that will set them apart from their peers from other schools,” says Shafer. “Not everyone is being as aggressive as we are at conveying these ideas.”

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