Data as a Feature Tutorial #2: Getting Started

This workshop series features a brand-new demo application—created by the TIBCO Jaspersoft team and projekt202—that illustrates and teaches you how to create answer-generating applications of your own. Over the course of 5 webinars, we will introduce you to the what and the why of data as a feature applications and how you can build your own.

Lesson 2: Agenda

• Overview of the project 
  • What were project goals?
  • Project lifecycle (based on our sprint)
  • Final demo app (what did we build)
  • Final reference architecture (how did we build it)
• Define UX 
  • Persona-based UX
  • Choose style guide
• Set up app environment 
  • Configuring app foundation with React.js
    • Helper
  • Setting up mock authentication (token-based)
  • UI Foundation (building UI with React.js)
• Prepare data to support UX 
  • Introduce dataset(s)
  • Data dictionary
  • Data architecture
  • Data integration / prep

Data-as-a-Feature Tutorial Lessons:

1. Build answer-generating apps that users love: Learn best practices for making data valuable to your application users
2. Getting started: How to set up your data-as-a-feature project
   • Project Overview
   • Defining the user experience
   • Setting up the application environment
   • Preparing data
3. Visualizing data: How to design reports and data visualizations your users love
4. Your data in your app: Best practices for embedding interactive reports and visualizations in your app
5. Managing the experience + ad hoc reporting: Handling security, multi-tenancy, and self-service reporting for your data-as-a-feature app