Thursday 18 October 2012

Early experiments with processing data

I am close to having all my survey data collected and so I have started experimenting with how I will process and present the data.

Here is a very early attempt at displaying results to a question as a pie chart with percentages. Please ignore all formatting and layout issues, it looks beautiful on my Mac but as soon as I upload it to Google Docs it gets pulverised.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Liam,

This is really good... pulverised or not! It's very clear and looks professional.

I've completed my second interview and trying to work out how I'm going to code the results and then present them.

I'm afraid my data presentation skills are literally just the basics I learnt in IT in Year 9 at school before I dropped it as a subject.... it would be interesting to see what other visuals you could use other than a pie chart, if there is anything?!

Jess

Sarah Pearson said...

Hi Liam,
How did you do that?!! Is there software available? I'm clueless!

Liam said...

Hi Jess,

Presenting the findings in way that shows what you want to show is a lot harder than I first thought! And with me having no experience with collecting and analysing data before, I didn't plan my questions according to how easy they would be to process! But I'm getting there slowly. There are a few other charts I will use, and some will require a worded explanation I think!

Sarah, I'm doing all my data processing and presenting with iWorks on my MacBook Pro. Numbers is the Apple equivalent to Windows Excel, but I've found it's much easier to use and there are many tutorials from Apple showing you how to use a lot of the functions.

Sarah Pearson said...

It sounds very complecated! Thank you for sharing your secrets though ;-)

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