Author Archives: ruoian27
Designing a faceted search for solar data
PDF version of this document Ian Ruotsala Abstract In library, information and computer science, an ontology is a network of relationships. A well-known subset of an ontology is a “taxonomy,” which is an ontology consisting of “is a” relationships. Biological … Continue reading
Designing a faceted search for solar data (abstract)
by Ian Ruotsala In library, information and computer science, an ontology is a network of relationships. A well-known subset of an ontology is a “taxonomy,” which is an ontology consisting of “is a” relationships. Biological taxonomies such as “a human … Continue reading
Spring Quarter, week 7 presentation
* end of year is fast approaching, yet still so much I need to do * I have been all-around too ambitious about what I wanted to do this year * I am poor at context switching while doing homework … Continue reading
AJAX
So, I think I should create a script specifically to query the server, call is, say, query_server.js. This is called everytime the user does something that requires the server to be queried. query_server.js will then change some global data in … Continue reading
asynchronous JS
Here is my first (semi) professional faceted search JS file. I append semi to the professional because it is still a work-in-development. What I am especially uncertain about is how to do asynchronicity: how should I handle the queries to … Continue reading
JavaScript reference semantics
I’ve decided to have the program grab the events from array, sort them by their unique ID, and put them into cumulative data structures which will be remembered throughout the course of the program. Each time the API is queried, … Continue reading
Spring Quarter, week 3 presentation
* realized there was a much better way to do this * if the project is getting cluttered way fast, there is probably a simpler solution * how to organize all the event objects? Probably I will put them in … Continue reading
professional code
I think I am actually, finally, starting to grasp JavaScript at a pretty competent level. Time to start being more professional with my code, i.e. I should do more documentation and versioning.
more backend details
Program will start by displaying all events within the past 24 hours. The API will be queried once by each event type. An appropriate data structure (probably a list) will hold the events that are returned, with a list for … Continue reading
backend details
Querying the HEK API will be fairly straightforward: I will do one query for each event type. The returned JSON files will then be parsed into JavaScript objects. These will be stored on the user’s system for the remainder of … Continue reading