Dr. Chan Weng Howe told us to do a project on descriptive statistics by using primary data such as a survey. My group has four members which are Husny, Fatin, Amir and I.At first, Husny created a group Whatsapp for us to communicate easily with each other. We discussed the topic that we are going to use for the survey. After several opinions from us, we chose “The Usage of Smartphone Among Students” as our topic. We wanted to know the usage of smartphones among Computer Science students.
We thought that it would be easier to use an electronic form of a survey using Google form. After we made the survey, we shared the link of the survey through Whatsapp groups consists of students from this faculty. Many students helped us by completing our survey. We succeed to get 105 respondents on our survey. Therefore, data analysis was much easier to do. Unfortunately, Covid-19 cases have been rising rapidly. The Government has decided to implement a nationwide Restriction of Movement Order beginning the 18th of March until now.
All my group members including me went back to our home. We decided to make online discussions using an application named Discord. By using the application, we can share our screen and communicate easily. We discussed how to use RStudio to generate graphs like a bar chart, pie chart, scatter plot, stem-and-leaf, box plot, frequency distribution and histogram. I made a Google document for the report so that all my group members can edit too after I added them as collaborators. We took less than a month to finish the report. I checked the report many times to make sure we did not make any spelling mistakes on the report.
After we finished editing the report, we continued to make the video presentation for our project. I thought it was hard to make the group video as we could not meet each other. My internet connection is quite bad to join the live record with others. Therefore, we recorded our own videos and combined it with our slides. After that, all of us sent our videos to Husny for him to combine the videos to make as a one group video. We tried our best to minimize the length of the video and we managed to make it to seven minutes and nine seconds. We hope our lecturer can accept the video as he told us the video must not exceed seven minutes.
Based on this project, from the sample of 105 students, most of the students often use social media on their smartphone and Instagram is the most preferred social media by students. The mean of monthly data usage among students is 16.93 GB. The highest value of students' average call is 60 minutes and the lowest is 2 minutes. 35 out of 105 students are very likely to watch movies or dramas on their smartphones daily. Based on the generated scatter plot of relation between student's CGPA and monthly data usage of students, we conclude that students' CGPA will not be affected by the amount of data they used monthly.
I am happy to have group members like them because this task becomes easier to be done as they gave good cooperation in completing this project. We really hope that we can get high marks for this project as we had tried our best in making this project. I want to thank my lecturer, Dr. Chan Weng Howe for guiding us until the end of this project and also thank my friends and family who always support me in any situation.