The general question I want to explore in the final project is: the income source of Bates Mill Company and how it is related to the financials of Bates College at its early stage. Since we have learned that the financial link between the Bates Mill Company and the foundation of Maine State Seminary(Bates College),… Continue reading Reflection 10

As for the final projects, I haven’t thought much about it. But I still have some clarifying questions at this point. First, what’s the format of this project? In this class, we have tried and experienced various kinds of platform such as edstem and the wordpress in the catapult. And we have learned from historical… Continue reading Reflection 9

In order to construct a chi-squared tests, we first need to pick up two columns in the original dataframe and analyze it by spliting them into two categories. For the categorical variables, we choose to use the profession of donors and their household values recorded by the 1850 census. And the hypothesis test we try… Continue reading Reflection 8

In class, we use the dataset of covid daily new cases and climate indicators-average temperature and try to test our hypothesis of the linear relationship between Covid-daily cases and averge temperature. First, we want to upload and read the original dataset that we want to analysis. And to make sure we get the correct dataset,… Continue reading Reflection 7

Time flies! I haven’t realized that we already reached the mid-point of fall semester. Looking back at the content we learned, I am veryt looking forward to the next half of our class. Reviewing the class, we have immersed both in technical and critical sphere. For the technical aspect, we touched on some of the… Continue reading Reflection 6

For the Human centered design(HCD) exercise, I feel like it’s a good way to get know people especially when you are conducting some kinds of surveys or interviews so that you can truly know/understand what your partners are thinking about. And if you are doing a mutual Human centered design exercise, you can help your… Continue reading Reflection 5

In the lab 4 step 42, we constuct a comparison of donation amounts for which only matched the donors’ first named Mary and John. First, our goal is to know the difference between Mary’s donations and John’s donations and their statistically significance. Therefore, we first need to check the donors’ dataframe with donor’s first name… Continue reading Reflection 4

In lab 3, we mainly try to analyze donations to the Bates Fund for every class from 2020 to 1940. And in order to understand the main characteristics in our dataset, we use the exploratory data analysis (EDA) method to conduct our research. We first calculate the mean, max, min, range and standard deviation of… Continue reading Reflection 3

I think the cotton weight data is meaningful to a large number of people within and without our community. This dataset is very useful to students, faculty, staff and the public who is willing to know more of the pre-history/early history of Bates college and its source of initial captial–Bates Mill. The context of this… Continue reading Reflection 2

My past coding experience is kind of meandering. My experience started on high school—which is not really a good memory for me. I started coding with Java on an AP computer science class. At first, I thought it was intriguing beacuse of its calculating power and the output after a flash of running process. But… Continue reading Reflection 1