Happy Holidays to all our readers! Not too much new with TIDE due to the holidays. Sara has started working on her honors thesis paper and I’m trying to support her in any way I can. We had hoped to …
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Finals Week – focusing on coursework
Sara and I have been working hard to get ready for our exams this week. We have talked about meeting over break to finish up anything left to get TIDE ready for launch. Just due to time constraints, we might …
Dead Week – not much time for TIDE
There has been very little progress this week on TIDE due to Sara and I having to finish up coursework and final projects. Our focus this week and next week will be to finish strong with our coursework and prepare …
Rearranging Schedules and Goals
This week, Sara, our advisor Katie, and I have taken another look at our planned timeline for the year and rearranged some things due to our setbacks we encountered from the IRB proposal being denied several times. If we can’t …
Thanksgiving Break – Catching Up
Sara and I have been working hard this semester, but have hit a lot of hurdles. The plan is to submit once more to the IRB over break, since our reviewer should still be working a couple of days during …
Blog Permissions Issues
Apologies for the delay in posting updates. After several weeks of being unable to edit any content on the website, Sara and I have, as of today, regained access to our blogs. I will be adding the blog posts I …
Next Step: Threading
Due to the many setbacks and delays that TIDE has been faced with due to difficulties getting our IRB proposal approved, we have had to reevaluate the timeline for our project. We are currently working on finishing up our database …
Sending and Receiving
Sara and I made a lot of progress on TIDE this week. We have written a couple of Python programs to log the messages sent and received via Twilio. We have both of the scripts working, although we are still …
Linking Up Twilio and the Database
This week Sara and I have been hard at work trying to connect the Twilio messages to our database. We have written some Python code to try to insert new entries into the relevant tables whenever a message is sent …
Table Structure Complete
We’ve made lots of progress this week. The database server is up and running and all the tables to be used in the TIDE project are set up. We currently have five tables: Participants, Scores, Messages, Responses, and Delays. The …