Scrum Report - Final

[aalchen]

What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)?
What were any major issues/challenges you ran into?
What you would hypothetically work on if you were to continue on the project?

Include your CSID in your post.

[aalchen]

Amy Chen (c9p6e)

What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)?
I organized tasks and assigned roles for the remaining two weeks in order to wrap up our final project and demo, and also completed written parts for the README deliverables.

What were any major issues/challenges you ran into?
A challenge was just communicating effectively with the team, as we were all on abnormal schedules and unable to meet synchronously leading up to the demo practice, but we were able to sort it out through slack messages and checking in with each other if we had questions.

What you would hypothetically work on if you were to continue on the project?
I would hypothetically work on building more social features on the application, for example, sending and sharing collaborative playlists with other users, and letting users leave comments or messages on certain songs. I would also add more quality of life improvements, like letting users edit playlist names, transfer songs between playlists, and fix bugs like one that will allow any logged in users to edit other users playlists.

[JeromeTing]

Scrum Report (Jerome Ting - CSID: k3a0b)

1. What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)?

   I primarily focused reviewing and testing the PRs. I cleaned up the about page, along with optimizing the machine learning model via silhouette and elbow method(and thus the resulting with 6 k clusters). I also worked in writing the something cool section of the Readme and expanding on the future directions.
2. What were any major issues/challenges you ran into?

   I ran into some issues with dependencies and somewhat affected deployment. This was because of the optimization of machine learning and using the yellow brick package, but it was resolved with some testing and working with Amy for deployment.
3. What do you plan to work on for this coming iteration (2 weeks)?
   
Hypothetically, I would work on feature engineering and exploring more machine learning models for optimization. I would also potentially look into scraping for more data to allow a more robust recommendation system.

[rrichc]

Scrum Update - Richard Chen (n4z2o)

1. What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)?
Mostly code review and user testing to ensure no bugs were present in the final demo. I put out a PR to display 'No songs found' when the SongResults component is empty for a better user experience. Also participated in demo practice runs.

2. What were any major issues/challenges you ran into?
The last PR we put out didn't have sufficient error handling, so if the Flask server we have recommending songs using our ML algorithm wasn't spun up on Render, there would be a frontend crash, but it was otherwise fine. So ensuring the ML server maintained uptime especially after the deadline was crucial.

3. What you would hypothetically work on if you were to continue on the project?
Work on implementing recommendations based on entire playlists instead of individual songs. Or integrating the playlist feature with Spotify's playlists.

[kernelkay]

Scrum Update - Khalid Dhieb (h2w7b)

1. What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)?
Mainly doing code reviews and fixing up any remaining bugs and UI issues. Worked to fix bugs that caused console errors and fixed a bug with our like system being broken in the carousel component. Also participated in demo practice runs.

2. What were any major issues/challenges you ran into?
Troubleshooting the root of the bug in our like system was the only main challenge, as it involved checking multiple logs to pinpoint the issue.

3. What you would hypothetically work on if you were to continue on the project?
I would work on seeing how the ML algorithm can be optimized, and would try to include a larger library of songs to expand the recommendation possibilities.

[Parmvir-S]

Parmvir Shergill (CSID: q3l6c)

What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)?
I mainly reviewed the pull requests that were being made. I also cleaned up the code a little bit, removing unnecessary comments, reformatting code and making sure everything was consistent.

What were any major issues/challenges you ran into?
I ran into a few challenges making sure the changes I made didn’t break anything. I had to use the spotify recommendation system instead of the one we built when I was testing things which worked fine for that specific case.

What you would hypothetically work on if you were to continue on the project?
In the demo, it was brought up that the app would likely need to go down if Spotify got rid of its API or started charging large amounts for it. One thing I would work on is to decouple our application from Spotify and maybe create a song manager class. Therefore, if we need to switch over to something like the Youtube API then we can easily do so.