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December 13, 2016
Harlan Wallach Associate Director of Media and Design, Northwestern IT
Rodolfo Vieira Senior Web and Mobile Developer, Northwestern IT
Serverless and Stateless Gaming Applications
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One Book One NorthwesternNU Predicts
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One Book One NorthwesternNU Predicts
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“The answer to one of these questions is no, and the answer to the other one is yes.”
- Nate Silver
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“The answer to one of these questions is no, and the answer to the other one is yes.”
- Nate Silver
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The 2016 ElectionNU Predicts
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The 2016 ElectionNU Predicts
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The 2016 ElectionNU Predicts
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Geo Game
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– Candy Lee, Professor, Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Communications, Northwestern University
– Austin Chambers, Student, Northwestern University
– Claude Azurin, Student, Northwestern University
– Rodolfo Vieira, Senior Developer and AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Northwestern University IT Academic and Research Technology
– Kelsey Rydland, GIS and Data Analyst, Northwestern University Libraries
– Alessandro Febretti, Senior Interactive Visualization Specialist, Northwestern University Research Computing Services
– Nick Gertonson, Web and Mobile Designer, Northwestern University, Northwestern University IT Academic and Research Technology
– Chris Widman, Production Manager, The Daily Northwestern
-Harlan Wallach Associate Director, Northwestern Information Technology
Northwestern University Organizational support provided by:
– Buffett Institute
– Study Abroad Office
– Office of the Provost
– University Libraries
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The Geo Game
• Concept • Improve Geographic
Knowledge • Design
• Country Based • Geographically Aware • Fun Fact To Improve
Retention
Faculty Innovation Project
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• Implementation • Promotion • Audience
• Evaluation & Assessment • Data Gathering • Post Quarter
The Geo GameFaculty Innovation Project
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Group Winners
Students 116Faculty 5Staff 21Total 142
Wildcat GeoGame Usage
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NU Predicts Usage
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NUpredicts Platform Architecture
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AWS Architecture
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• Authentication via Single Sign-On • Directory Services (Active Directory) • Harvesting of federated user metadata
• Directory • SES
• Aggregation of results by: • School • Department/Unit (staff) • Role (Faculty, staff, student).
Identity Management
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Realtime UI/UX
AWS Orchestration of ServicesScoring System
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AWS Scalability & High Availability
“SCALABILITY - ability of a system to increase the workload on its current hardware resources (scale up); ELASTICITY - ability of a system to increase the workload on its current and additional (dynamically added on demand) hardware resources (scale out); Elasticity is strongly related to deployed-on-cloud applications.”
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AWS Cloud Costs
• Traditional Stack • Maintenance.
• Operating Systems • System Level • Application Layer
• Redundancy • Backup and Failover • Disaster Recovery
VS
• Serverless Architecture • AWS Lambda • NoSQL database
• Automate Snapshots • API Gateway and Security • Scalability • High Availability
Cloud: Pay as you GoOn Prem: Fixed Costs
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Next Stages of Development
1. Creator Experience
2. Administrative Interface Reporting and Data Visualization Metrics
3. Learning Tools Interoperability Component
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• Build Intuitive UI/UX playground for creating game instances.
• Enable end-users to create their own prediction games.
• Publish game instances as standalone web apps or embeddable widgets.
Next Stages of DevelopmentCreator Experience
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• User and Group Management • Reporting Tools • Data Visualization Metrics • API to access the exported data.
Next Stages of DevelopmentAdministrative Interface
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Next Stages of DevelopmentLearning Tool Interoperability (LTI)
• Build LTI component • Enable integration of the NUpredicts platform with Learning Management Systems:
• Instructure Canvas • Faculty creates and manages all the content and end-user experience.
from imsglobal
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• Offer the NUpredicts via the LTI / App Store.
• Any faculty member can ‘enable’ it for their course.
Next Stages of DevelopmentLTI / App Store
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Faculty EngagementPilot Project for integration with Canvas
• Faculty Buy-In. • Early Adopters • Distribute outside of Northwestern
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Questions?