5. Week

WHAT HAVE WE DONE THIS WEEK?

Week 5 was all about finishing our software. We did a lot of bug fixing and testing with nightshifts included.

We got in contact with Schurter to talk about our latest progress and the last details of our solution. At this call we also fixed the meeting for the deployment.

Unfortunately it turned out, that Schurters requirement using Google as search engine will not work the way we want it to. Google restricted the web search to 100 searches per day. Even if you choose a paid account it will not be possible to get more than 100 search results from Google. Even tough Bing now becomes the prioritized search Engine, Google will still be implemented for files that are less than 100 tuples.

We also did some reasearch on better algorithms for the search logic. Especially the "Cosine Similarity Algorithm" was promising. After implementing this algorithm and some further tests we had to realize, that non of them improved our existing search logic. Most algortihms were best suitable for spell checking or comparison of the similarity for larger text documents. For our purpose however, non of them were applicable.

In addition to that we improved our search logic and added the possibility to also process a CSV file. Now Schurter can choose if they would rather like to have an Excel or a CSV file as end result. We also wrote our first manuals.

To make sure our software works as it should, we started a test run with a 90 tuples file. The result of this test is shown in the picture at the top of this side.

WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO NEXT?

In the next few days before we will head up to Santa Rosa we have to finish our software we named SPOSDES (SCHURTER POS DATA ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM).

To be ready next Monday we have to do some last test cases and all manuals have to be written. We will also deploy the software on different devices to test it.

After our deployment on Monday we are going to finish our proof of concept in categorization. And make sure we are ready to present our solution at the big final presentation next Friday.

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