Throughout my life, I had always had a tough time reading graphs, but once I finally started to understand their formating, I realized the importance of them. I realized just how much data presented in mathematical forms can display solid statistical information to prove points and draw conclusions. Being able to present information in mathematical forms is very helpful because it can show you correlations that you’ve never even noticed. I will present three examples of where I display my keen ability to present information in mathematical forms
My first example is in the assignment, “team demographics.” The purpose of this assignment was to find the target audience of our serious game by narrowing down to the audience size. We had to create a graph that matched our process of creating our target audience. Upon looking over the assignment. Once mat notice a color-coated graph consisting of three rectangles, starting largest and ending smallest in the middle of the larger triangles. We designed this graph in this format because we wanted each rectangle to represent a specific population. The next triangle will narrowed because it will have another aspect in common. The final smallest triangle will be our target audience in which shares three characteristics. The first being the number in people in Chico, the second is all of those people that attend Chico State, and the third that they are sophomores
http://mikey.ourdigitalplanet.net/team-demographics/
My second example will be the assignment “beta test surveys” which was one of my favorites. This assignment was one of my favorites because the graphs were formed out of data that we collected for the purpose of enhancing our game in order to achieve our desired learning outcome. Many of the previous times I had constructed graphs, I had no purpose for them except for the fact that we were required to create one for a class. This was one of the first times that I was genuinely interested in what the data had to tell me. In this assignment we had given surveys to the people in our class that had participated in the testing of our game. Our hope was that they had learned about being prepared for disasters and understanding that these disasters are happening constantly in some part of our world. From these surveys we created graphical representations to consolidate our data in order to analyze the results. From there we can alter our game based upon the evaluations of the collected data. This data also tells us what type of people we surveyed. In this assignment, me created 15 graphs that all reflected the answers to the questions from the beta test surveys.
http://mikey.ourdigitalplanet.net/beta-test-surveys/
The final example will be the assignment “summarizing data.” In this assignment each person in their group collected information about the apps on their phones. Once each person completed their data collection, we got into groups and then were challenged with the task of consolidating all the data we collected. We decided to achieve this by listing all the common apps, from there we listed all the common ways of categorizing the apps. Then we finished by adding up the storage of the apps and dividing it up between the number of people that had each app to find the average. For the rest of the categories we wrote the number of yes and no answers.