This week was mainly for preparing for Data Visualization in Week 5. We are going to collect data to create a dataset, which needs to contain 5 variables. However, we ended the course with one part left unfinished due to a sudden fire.
First, we chose "Scenario 1: Student-led Data Collection". By narrowing down the idea, we decided to explore the concept of 'Employability'. The data sources we intend to collect and use are publicly available data generated by a university, websites, social media, reports ranking lists and web scraping. Since most of the data in this part has been ethically reviewed and is open to the public, we will not experience ethical issues. In the process of considering the research gap and data gap, we think that the diversity among societies, and representation of minorities will be areas that need to be considered and cared about.
However, after discussing it with Holly, we found that our idea was a big project because we were trying to do too many things, which made our goal too complex. Since we have a long list of ideas, she suggested we choose or narrow down one part to look for, measure and scrape. I think this will be the part we need to work on in the next week. Meanwhile, we need to define variables, values and cases. We seemed to make mistakes in this section. Anyways, we will figure it out!