I have learned many things whilst conducting the project 1 for the subject Probability & Statistical Data Analysis (PSDA). This project is conducted in a group of 4 people. The project specification was for us to determine a suitable topic to conduct a survey and accumulate data from the community. My team and I have decided on the topic " Ideal Characteristics Of A Partner"
There were many challenges that i have faced throughout the project as a member of this team. The first challenge that i faced was on learning a completely new programming langue which was R programming. Since it was a new programming language that i had no prior knowledge about it took me some time to acclimate to it. But thanks to our PSDA lecturer, Dr Chan Weng Howe , I managed to pick up the programming language after some hard work and diligence. Besides that another major problem I faced whilst researching for the project, communication problems were a major obstacle. At the time being, Malaysia is under the Movement Control Order(MCO) due to the global pandemic due to CORONA Virus(Covid-19). This has caused most of the university students to go back to their own hometown. This in turn made it very difficult to communicate with the other team members about the project. This situation made it hard to complete the project and also made it difficult to hold meetings to discuss the project. But we as a team managed to overcome this problem with the help of online tools such as social media, ZOOM, Discord and etc.
We as a team agreed to conduct the gathering of data through a questionnaire with the help of google forms. This was the most effective efficient method for us and the people answering our survey. Once this step was done we compiled all the data we collected from 70 people, and we transferred all the data to and Excel spreadsheet and we cleaned all the data. We then began to plot our various graphs such as dot-plot, histograms, bar-graph and etc using the R Studio.After completing all the graph we began our report explaining the information we got from the data accordingly. I than went through the entire report formatting and correcting grammatical errors. We then got on to the third component of the project which was the presentation. Due to the current MCO, we were unable to present it in front of the class and have opted to present it through a video. The video was filmed at each group members respective location and was complied and edited to make the final video. Each member was responsible in presenting a certain part of the report in detail such as methodology , findings and graphs.