2018-07-18 Weekly Check-in

Date

18 Jul 2018 

Attendees and/or Technical Stakeholders

• Craig Appl (Unlicensed)
• Clay Crosby (Unlicensed)
• Antonate Maritim (Unlicensed)
• Wambere (Unlicensed)
• Felimone Amone Junior
• Timoteo Chaluco (Unlicensed)
• Dércio Duvane
• Christine Lenihan

• Ben Leibert

Discussion items

Documentation

A nascent Maintenance Notes page now exists on our wiki.

Clay's Update

Over the past week, Clay Crosby (Unlicensed) and the team have:

• Loaded three months of HSS Funds data in to the system and built a corresponding dashboard.

• Built a facility-level dashboard with stockout metrics and elicited feedback regarding it from the rest of the team.

• Configured the system to automatically pull data from DHIS-2 on the 11th of each month, which is one day after DHIS-2 is supposed to have been updated. NOTE: For the current period, DHIS-2 contains null values and appears not to have been updated as expected.

What we have left to do:

• Update the dashboards based on any feedback received.
• Populate some of the filters with values. 
• Construct a district-level dashboard. Note that this is pending an upgrade from version 2 to 3 of Python that the team has planned. (The upgrade is necessary because Python 2 doesn't support Portuguese's accented characters. This, in turn, breaks Superset's the "group by" functionality.)
• Build Utilization and Breakage indicators at the facility level.
• Finish configuring the system for use with Scalyr.
• Perform database backups as part of the ingestion process.
  
  

Question: Real trimestral data may affect the way the dashboards should look, and we still need it. When can we likely expect the data?

Answer: Potentially as early as next week.

NexLeaf

Question: NexLeaf currently exposes province-level imagery, and will soon support the retrieval of district-level data as well. NexLeaf doesn't distinguish between provinces and districts, though, and instead simply considers them all to be geographical "groups." The easiest way to incorporate NexLeaf's new support for districts into our existing UI would be to follow suite by replacing our existing Provinces dropdown (filter) with a more generic one which includes groups as well. Would this be okay, of is it necessary to have two filters - one dedicated to distracts and the other to provinces? Combined, there are about a dozen provinces and districts with NexLeaf's RTM devices.

Answer and conclusion: Over the next few years, RTM devices will spread throughout the country. There may be 1,500 geographies with the devices, and a single dropdown likely won't suffice for them. With that scale, two dropdowns won't necessarily work well either. For now, rather than invest time into solving a problem which doesn't yet exist, we'll simply alphabetize the entries within the single dropdown we use. A few years from now, as we outgrow the dropdown, we'll explore ways in which the UI should be updated. Something like a freeform textbox may be necessary to accommodate all the new geographies. The LOE necessary to accommodate so many geographies may be significant - especially because the current page was designed to show so few. We'll therefore revisit the page's implementation and UI when it becomes necessary, and use its single dropdown for now.

Action items

• Dércio Duvane and/or Timoteo Chaluco (Unlicensed) will continue providing Clay with feedback via email.

• Felimone Amone Junior will follow up with the team regarding SELV's stockout rates (which were discussed at our previous check-in).