Friday, June 11, 2010

Project Journal

• Predict the sorts of social and ethical issues that may arise of numerical info system? While analysing this data you must consider the various ethnical issues that may arise such as the overall acceptance of using laptop and even affordability and the responsibility of usage etc... These factors are shown in the results of the survey that was conducted and the trends and values that were highlighted. A social issue involved in this is the Prediction of loss of handwriting skills although in a time period where the majority of work is done though the form of technology there is a split opinion of the statement and again this is shown within the survey results student and staff although especially the staff which is a trend.
• Assess the hardware and software requirements needed to meet the numerical information system’s needs. The applications both soft ware and hardware required to assets in the conductions of a numerical information system includes: Google docs, Excel, an information system to send out Survey ( in this case Face book) and in extension to display the data and information a structure of online journaling (in this case Blogger)
• Discuss the merits of the different data collection strategies used on the forms. While conducting a survey you need to ask appropriate question that will give you a more reliable answer and the different strategies are of proper open and closed questions, a free reasons is time consuming for both parties although give more depth to the issues and scale gives a fair average checkboxes give exact purpose. The correct strategies and questioning must be used to gain a good source of data.
A good structured survey compels a meaningful set of data in results and this is exemplified though the usage of a Google doc spreadsheet. Also when displaying data you must use correct formation to help understand clearly what has happened and that depends on when you use either a pie, bar, line etc... (Graph)

No comments:

Post a Comment