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For the Final Project I am partnering up with Ryan Audemard and Christina Wang. We all agree on this collaboration and have devised a structure for our Final Project. The question we decided to work on is: What was donated to Bates in comparison to the goal donation? To answer this question we will look… Continue reading REFLECTION 10: FINAL PROJECT QUESTION

While working with the Bates Fund Leaderboard on my Final Project I have a few questions. Where is the original record of this data? I asked this question because the data I used was from the bates website. I am curious as to what the raw data looks like. Is it organized or did it… Continue reading REFLECTION 9: QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FINAL PROJECT

The Chi Square Analysis determines the relationship between categorical variables by using a null and alternative hypothesis. The null hypothesis is usually that there are no relationships between the given categorical variables. The alternative hypothesis is that there is a relationship between the variables and knowing the value of one variable helps predict another. The… Continue reading REFLECTION 8: CHI SQUARE ANALYSIS

Human Centered Design is a practical approach to innovative solutions that puts the users needs before anything else. By doing this exercise I was able to understand the person for whom I was designing a solution. The topic of this HCD exercise was to come up with a solution for my partner’s Final project on… Continue reading REFLECTION 5: HCD EXERCISE

In this lab we looked at the goal values and actual values for donations to bates over the years. Towards the end we worked on the number of cotton bales and the cost of each subset of bales. This was very interesting as we could easily gauge the hardships faced by the African American cotton… Continue reading REFLECTION 3: VISUALIZATION:BATES FUND LEADERBOARD

I have mostly used Python to code and it was the first language that I was introduced to in coding. I have also done some basic coding in C, C++ and MySQL. In python I was mostly interested in game design so I have used it’s libraries to use some complex functions (such as using… Continue reading REFLECTION 1: FIRST WEEK EXPERIENCE

In class we have completed a lot of the concepts in Ed Stem and R. The Live coding sessions and the unlisted videos are extremely helpful in understanding all of the concepts. The variables and assignment of values were a very interesting subject for me. I understood the the concatenate function, lists, logical operators and… Continue reading REFLECTION 6: LEARNING SO FAR

The csv file used for this lab contains details for the Cotton Bales such as the cost and weight of each and every individual Bale along with the name of the Brokers. Throughout the data sets there were missing values for different columns our first task was to fill those in. We did this by… Continue reading REFLECTION 7:DATA IN BATES MILLS CSV FILE

Understanding Cotton Weight data can be very significant to people researching slavery in the early years of America. By calculating the weight of all the cotton bales and dividing them by 150 we can get the data for how much time was taken of the hands of the workers. Through this data we can understand… Continue reading REFLECTION 2:COTTON WEIGHT DATA

We are using the Treasurer’s Records from 1854-1858 in order to fill in information in MSS_donors.csv. We analyzed and performed Exploratory data analysis on this data along with some introductory sub setting. This data provides us with the list of donors from 1854-1858. It also gives us additional information such as location, last name and… Continue reading REFLECTION 4:COMPARING 2 DONATIONS