Blog from June, 2009

Work Completed

  • Updated Building Tutorial wiki page to include sections on the building decision support analyses. Included is up-to-date text describing the analyses and test runs to make sure everything works as written in the tutorial. I opened a MAE-1211 and fixed a discrepancy for what the Multi-Attribute Utility Analysis field name should have been and what it was. I also noticed a few minor out of date parts in the help file. This has been updated.
  • Updated building decision support help text. I noticed a few fields described in text were out of date. This work was also tracked as part of MAE-1211 since they were similar.
  • Added the MAEviz Pipeline Damage Tutorial to the wiki and updated the text and images. This tutorial had originally been done for the Turkish Gas Pipelines so the text was updated with our sample fictitious pipeline dataset for Shelby County.
  • Finished adding the bridge tutorial. Next week I will add sections covering the bridge decision support (NBSR) as a tutorial.

Work Planned

  • Continue adding MAEviz tutorials to the wiki and updating them to make them current with latest version of MAEviz. The MAEviz pipeline tutorial needs to be added to the wiki. Also, the MAEviz decision support section needs to be added to the building tutorial
  • Finish adding the bridge tutorial to the wiki

Comments

This week went as planned.

Work Completed

  • Continued working on adding the bridge damage tutorial to the wiki. Updated screenshots and text to match the current MAEviz version.

Work Planned

  • Work on adding the bridge damage tutorial to the MAEviz wiki

Comments

This week went as planned. I took personal days from the 16th - 19th. I will be back to full time on Monday the 22nd.

Work Completed

  • Follow up contact of Chris Powell about potential NSF proposal, awaiting her response. I will try to arrange a short teleconference to get some ideas on the table so we can get started writing. The due date is July 8, 2009.
  • Replaced some fragility files with updated ones from Can. I also tested the analyses to make sure everything was working properly. I also updated the default sets to point to the new files. This work is tracked as MAE-1210.
  • Finished adding the building damage tutorial and the introductory tutorial parts to the wiki and I updated screenshots and text to make it current. The section on decision support still needs to be added.
  • I started adding the bridge damage tutorial, updated the old screenshots from it and made the text current with MAEviz 3.1.1.

Work Planned

  • Add Building Damage Tutorial and Introductory Tutorial to the wiki. This should make the tutorial materials more accessible to the user from Jordan and any future clients.
  • Add Bridge Damage Tutorial to the wiki.
  • Update Utility Fragilities in MAEviz and update Default Sets
  • Contact Chris Powell about NSF proposal opportunities.

Comments

This week went as planned. I will be taking personal days June 16 - June 19, 2009, returning to work on Monday June 22, 2009.

Work Completed

  • We were contacted by Bill Spencer to help a researcher in Jordan get building data into MAEviz. Most of the tutorials for MAEviz involve data already being in MAEviz so we are writing up some wiki documentation on getting new data into the software. I started this work and will continue web-izing our tutorials into the MAEviz wiki next week.
  • Continued adding more text to the blog entry about JUnit and jMock testing libraries. I have a simple (but complete) example that takes the developer through the process of getting a unit test working with these libraries. Unit Test/jMock Tutorial
  • Continued setting up the unit testing framework that will test parts of the Data Catalog as they are completed. Also, I am following the updates to the wiki about the data catalog as they are made and contributing as I can. I added a section about unit testing and some simple conventions.
  • Contacted Chris Powell of CERI about collaborating on an earth science NSF proposal. She and a colleague, Chris Cramer, are interested in pursuing something so Jong and I will lead this effort.
  • Attended Friday CET, 2 - 3pm meeting via Google Chat.

Work Planned

  • Contact Chris Powell to pursue potential earth science collaboration.
  • Continue Unit testing blog entry with an example using JUnit and jMock.
  • Continue following Data Catalog wiki updates
  • Create tutorial for ingesting building data and fragility mapping data into MAEviz with step-by-step instructions.
  • Web-ize the current MAEviz tutorials by adding them to the wiki.
  • Attend Friday CET Meeting, 2 - 3 pm.

Comments

This week went as planned. Next week I will continue with the data catalog, NSF proposal and MAEviz tutorial web-izing.