Month: March 2024

Reflection Code 123 Cleaning Data

Evitt Nashed

Dr. Smith

March 25, 2024

       After synthesizing and reading two articles about cleaning data, I feel as if cleaning the data is more ethical when doing research. I didn’t agree with the article, “Against Cleaning” because data cleaning can help you have better visualizations and useful data. The author talked about how Data cleaning can cause a messy outcome for their research. I honestly fully disagree with that. Being uncertain causes messes within the research. It’s good to review your data more than once and correct the errors.

        An article I agreed with was the article about data visualizations. This article went into depth about the ways we can make uncertainty disappear. It gives us examples like refining the data you’ve made. The author’s main point in this article is to face ambiguity head-on through visual means. Another example to fix uncertainty would be plotting data with statistical, visual displays.

     One way we can deal with complicated data is to show your workflow of how you are forming that data. That workflow can help make understanding data a lot easier. Another example of dealing with complicated data would be of course cleaning the data. I believe that not cleaning your data can cause a load of messy work and uncertainty. The last example I feel is important when dealing with complicated data is to keep the original data raw and to make a copy of it and work on that copy. It is important to keep your raw information so that other researchers can look back into that raw data.

    To conclude, I agree with cleaning your data so that it is more efficient to look back on. Not cleaning your data can cause problems within the data which can make it a lot harder to work with. I can use this information in the future by always looking over my data visualizations and making sure it’s clean and makes sense.

Spatial Analysis lab CODE 123

Evitt Nashed

Dr. Smith

March 17, 2024

    During my spatial analysis lab, I’ve made some clear observations of the areas and places around SIUE. I decided to look up different restaurants, fast food places, and gas stations in Edwardsville and see how long it would take to get there. At first, I didn’t understand the lab because I didn’t know the meaning and purpose of this lab but I soon realized what it was towards the end.

     I first started by looking up gas stations near SIUE. The closest one near campus would be the Circle K gas station. To drive there, it would take about 5-7 mins depending on where on campus you’re at. Another place I looked at was fast food places. I looked at Sonic and saw it would take about 5-7 minutes also. Now if you’re riding a bike, that could differ. If you’re on a bike, it would take about 20 minutes. Another place I looked at was Walmart. To drive there it would take about 13 minutes. Walking to Walmart would be a different story though. That would take about an hour or even longer to get to Walmart if you’re walking.

   The point of this lab was to realize that locations of places can affect certain people. For example, there are lots of students that don’t have cars on campus. They have to resort to either walking or taking the bus. This can be a big problem for them because they could be in a hurry to get something, but they will have to wait till the right bus comes to pick them up. Locations of places affect these kinds of people who don’t have cars because they have to work around the town’s transportation.

Ethnography Reflection Code 123

Evitt Nashed

Dr. Smith

March 13, 2024

     Ethnography is defined as the customs and personalities a certain group shares. For my ethnography observation, I had to observe people in the Lower MUC at SIUE. My tasks involved watching these kinds of people talk, what they are doing, what topics they are talking about, etc. As I was observing I formed the main question, “Are you at the MUC to socialize, eat, or work?”

     I started my observation at 2:00 because that’s when the MUC was busy. I sat where the Cocina and Pizza place were at. The surroundings of my place were full of tables and seats. There are also TVs present for people to watch. I counted how many people were around me and made an average of about 30-40 people. While observing, a couple groups of people were together eating and socializing. None of them had any textbooks or homework, so I wouldn’t assume they were working on something. There were a couple of students just sitting alone either on their phones or being productive with work.

      The overall surroundings of this area were loud and didn’t have any quiet places. The observation I’ve made through watching these certain people was that the MUC is a common place for people to mostly socialize with others and not a place for quiet time or work. I felt as if this was going to be the answer since I don’t go to the MUC to work, instead, I go there to socialize with my friends and talk about our day or random drama.

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