Wednesday, October 15, 2008

October 15th's assignment

After you get through writing your survey items, I have two activities for you to do. They will help you with the analysis of the survey results.

First, could you go to the link below and take the survey at:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pNQv91E3D3-TU1RMbAQAcBA

One is to create a Wordle visualization. A Wordle is a visualization of text, where the more frequently a word is used, the larger it is. Below you will find an example of the Finlandia University's Wikipedia text:



So the first activity is to:

1. Go to http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/app

2. Sign in

3. Find some text from a website or anything else you are interested in. A lot of people make visualizations of debate and speech texts.

4. Upload the data and create a wordle visualization.

5. If you are on a windows station, hit print screen and paste (ctrl-p) the visualization into the paint program and save it as a jpg or bmp or whatever and mail it to me. You can get rid of the rest of the screen, by cropping the picture as you want it, then copying and pasting that into a new paint window.

Once you finish that let me know and I will invite you to the example survey about foods that you just took at the beginning of class. Your task is to analyze that data and create a short power point presentation of the results. You might even try using one of the other Many Eyes visualizations if you are feeling adventurous.

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