Second Meeting Record

Meeting Description

Date / Time: 29 March 2026 (evening)

Location: Online discussion after instructor feedback

Attendees: Xi Zixun, Wang Zhuoran, Jin Qinhao

Purpose

This meeting recorded the team decision to pivot from the earlier mixed recovery direction into one shared tourism time-series workflow for the final project.

Key Decisions

  1. Use data/raw/visitor_arrivals_full_dataset.xlsx as the shared arrivals backbone.
  2. Keep data/raw/tourism_update.xlsx only as supporting tourism context for EDA, CDA, and forecasting interpretation.
  3. Reframe the final app around three modules:
    • Time Series Visual Analysis
    • Time Series Clustering
    • Forecasting
  4. Treat country-level monthly arrivals as the common analytical target across modules.
  5. Remove the older standalone modelling materials so the final project only exposes the three shared time-series modules.

Work Split After Pivot

  1. Xi Zixun: visual analysis rewrite, proposal intro/data/research questions, shared arrivals framing.
  2. Wang Zhuoran: clustering prototype, clustering Shiny module, storyboard, app shell integration.
  3. Jin Qinhao: forecasting prototype, forecasting Shiny module, user guide, package audit, smoke test updates.
  4. Shared integration work: navigation cleanup, deployment path, meeting records, and final QA.

Action Items

  1. Build processed country-arrivals backbone files from the new full workbook.
  2. Align website navigation with the final three-module structure.
  3. Update proposal, storyboard, and user guide so they describe the same app contract.
  4. Deploy the static website separately from the Shiny app.

Expected Deliverables

  1. One Quarto website with proposal, prototypes, user guide, and meeting records.
  2. One Shiny app with visual analysis, clustering, and forecasting modules.
  3. Shared scripts that can regenerate the processed arrivals backbone when the raw workbook changes.