Better college attendance?

[theSage21]

It would be cool to pull data from the college site and perform attendance analysis on it for public display on the Compsoc site.

[libhide]

+1.
@deadbeatfour, thoughts?

[abhishekchak52]

I like the idea.
Do you mean run a script and publish a post every month?
I guess what I'm asking is should it be manually updated?

[theSage21]

Nope nope. We integrate a page where it does a weekly pull on it's own. Automated end to end.

[abhishekchak52]

That would be very cool indeed. Let's do this

[theSage21]

Awesome. A new branch then? @libhide how about it?

[abhishekchak52]

Branch from the level-up branch please

[libhide]

@theSage21 I'm so in! How are we going about this then?

[theSage21]

Let's set up a todo list of sorts. Here's my proposal @libhide @deadbeatfour. Perhaps @utk-dev would want to join in? I don't know anyone else from college other than you guys who are also on Github.

• How to get the data?
  • Server or Webpage? (server seems more efficient since we can set up a cron or something)
• What is missing in the college attendance services?
  • A last updated date. That would be useful.
• What all do we want to show in the analysis?
  • Bunk meter to measure how many classes can you safely bunk?
  • Average attendance of batches?
  • What do people care about in their attendance?
• Personalization after some time?
  • People can create accounts and manage their attendance?
  • They might want to create priorities for classes. "I don't want to miss this class at all!"