Reflection Project 1
My name is Amir Hakim Bin Ahmed Mahir, a first year student at School of Computing, UTM Skudai and currently taking the Software Engineering course. In this reflection I will be writing about my personal experience and opinion about Project 1 for Probability & Statistical Data Analysis subject from my point of view. Before continue even further, I would like to show my gratitude towards my lecturer, Dr. Chan Weng Howe for showing the guidelines for this project to me and the whole class.
Immediately after Dr. Chan Weng Howe assign our class with this project, me and my three other friends team up as a group because every group must consist three to four students. Without wasting any time, my and group and I made our first group discussion to brainstorm ideas about the topic that we want to choose for our project. Each and every one of us came up with one idea each. I suggested to make the project about students’ financial while my other group members suggested smoking, gaming and students’ grades. At the end of the meeting, we decided to take gaming as our main topic of the project as all of us like to play games and it would be suitable for us to choose it.
After a few days, our group made another group meeting, this time we discussed on what questions that suitable for us to ask in our survey. There are a lot of questions during the drafting but only 10 questions that we thought fitting and corresponding to the type of measuring scales. One of the questions is “How much money do you spent on game per month?”. At that time, I’m really curious what will the participants answer. Me personally spend RM30 per month on games and if the participants spend more than it, I’m sure he/she is very rich. Other question that caught my attention is “How often you involve in outdoor activity per week?”. As we all know, gamers are not known for their activeness on the outdoors. So, after the we finished choosing the 10 questions, one of my group members volunteered to compile all of the questions into Google Form, which is a great option to create a survey. Next day morning, he blasted the Google Form to many Whatsapp groups that are related to School of Computing, as we are targeting the students from the school. We also decide to only take 50 responses as sample.
After 50 students, answered, my friend who in charge of the survey immediately close the survey. From the responses, Google Form has created a data description diagram for each of the questions, which was a very big help to us. My group was split into two, where two people do the programming at R-Studio, while the other two handle the report for the project. I am one of the latter. Even though we split into two sub-groups, we still help each other when completing the tasks as teamwork is a key element on successfully finish this project. But the recent pandemic has caused trouble to our group as all students need to stay at home and thus has prevent us to do our meeting like before. In order to counter that, we decided to discuss about the project on Whatsapp and sometimes Discord.
When the report and the R-Studio programming have finished, it was time to record a video presenting our project. We used the Microsoft PowerPoint to create the slide and then record our voice there. After all of it finished, we write our own reflection about this project, and then our project is truly finished.
In my opinion, this project taught a lot of new things to me. For example, I can now do a little bit of R-programming with the help of my group members and I also just knew that we can record our voices on PowerPoint which made me very excited doing it for the first time. This project also taught me how important teamwork and mutual trust between group members when finishing this project. I also learnt to manage my time well as during the project completion, we are at home and there are a lot of distractions here, but luckily we remind each other about it.
Reflection Project 2
My name is Amir Hakim Bin Ahmed Mahir, a first year student at School of Computing, UTM Skudai and currently taking the Software Engineering course. In this reflection I will be writing about my personal experience and opinion about Project 2 for Probability & Statistical Data Analysis subject for this semester, which replacing the final exam for this subject. But before that, I would like to thanks my lecturer, Dr. Chan Weng Howe for briefing the guidelines for this project to me and the whole class.
When Dr. Chan Weng Howe told us about the project will be carried out individually, I was a little bit scared as I am not very confident about this subject although my carry marks were decent. After the rubrics for the project were explained by the lecturer, I immediately try to find the suitable datasets for it. I have spent a whole day searching the Internet for the dataset. But, exactly a few minutes before 12.00 a.m. the next day, I found a suitable dataset. Without any hesitations, I finished the proposal for this project as the due date for it was very near at this moment.
The dataset that I chose was about the stats of Major League Baseball. I personally doesn’t know much about baseball, so I have done some research about it. Most of the stuff that I have done research about were the terms that they used such as AB (At-Bat), BH (Base Hit) and G (Games Played). I also have done my research on a certain baseball rule which is designated hitter rule. This rule is very important in my project analysis.
Moving to the coding part of this project, I have used R-Studio for it. To be honest, I am not very good at R-coding. During the project 1, I have done a little bit o R-coding, but doesn’t fully understand it. So, I have spent a few days just to learn the R-coding step by step from the very beginning. I have learnt it form the slides provided by the lecturer and through Youtube videos. After do some of the coding, I finally got the general idea for R-coding. it actually quite simple as there a lot of function that were already built in it.
All the coding for most of the analysis were going quite smoothly. I have stuck at ANOVA coding for some time as the dataset that I chose does not have enough nominal data types, meaning that it was very hard for me to do the categories part. So, I have messaged Dr. Chan Weng Howe to ask for his opinions about it and he kindly explained to me on how to manipulate the data inside the datasets correctly and also encouraged me to do more for the analysis, for example do more than one correlation for this project. Then, I have finally done all the coding for all the analysis and also add some more analysis so that my project can be more in depth.
After that, it was time to do the report for all the analysis. For each analysis, I have searched on the Internet about how to describe the analysis correctly. Fortunately, there were a lot of websites that teaches the instructions on how to the analysis report. After the R-coding and report done, I have recorded a video to present my project. I have put all the important points into Microsoft PowerPoint and then present the project based on it. Then, I wrote the reflection for this project to mark the project as done and dusted.
Overall, I think this project has taught a lot of new things to me. The most noticeable thing for me is the R-coding. I felt very satisfied to finally understand on how to the coding, as I am not very good to begin with. After that, I think the project really made me to arrange my schedule effectively as there are a lot of other projects and assignments that were given by other lecturers. I am ver grateful to finished this project within the given period. Next, it also made me to have good perseverance as the project was very time consuming and stressful at times.