This week we gave our presentation on preswald, and I made progress on my personal contribution to jolpica. On wednesday this week, we finally gave our presentation on how our contributions to preswald have been going over the past couple months. I think the presentation went quite well, we were well prepared and practised, and articulated our story pretty well. Jack wanted us to meet up the day before to have a practise run, which at first I didn’t really think was necessary, but afterwards realised was quite valuable as we were able to make sure we didn’t go over the time limit and word our thoughts better. I think the class found our journey quite interesting as there were lots of questions about the project and how our experience was. Since we were the first to present, I was a bit nervous, but overall was quite pleased with how it went.

We also got to watch the presentation on Huggingface, which was a project that I was interested in as I have used their transformers library in the past. When I first heard that they were working on this I was surprised as it seemed to be a very sophisticated and complicated project to work on as university students. Nonetheless, they were able to make some actual code contributions which I found very impressive. I think in the future I might myself try to contribute to this project if I have a time.

As for my own individual contributions, I have spent the past couple weeks looking into a open source formula 1 database and api called jolpica. So far, I made a documentation fix to the readme, updating some outdated instructions. I also made a discussion post proposing a way to implement driver of the day statistics into the database. My proposal is to write a script to scrap web data and deliver it in a machine readable format. The maintainer responded by saying that I could go ahead and do this if i was able to propose a way to integrate the data into the current database schema. Since I have little experience working with databases, I do feel a bit overwhelmed, but am currently reading over the documentation and furthering my understanding of the project. I plan to spend the next couple weeks working on this so I can make my feature implementation.