Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Home stretch

I met with my supervisor again last week and she estimated that we're over 2/3 of the way through the museum plan... YAY! I'm about to get stuck in to collating the survey data, which is actually quite mathematical so I'm not too sure how my creatively inclined brain will manage this task! It's a whole lot of statistical analysis, which is interesting because it shows the raw data of what people in the region have been saying about a new museum there. It will take a fair bit of time to create all the tables though, as she recruited a biometrician to obtain the stats from the perspective of gender, age and whether or not they live on a farm. So that equates to roughly 60 tables.... yikes. The good news is that I'm getting my hours down, which right now is up there on my list of priorities... while I aim to finish my 240 required hours in the next three - four weeks, I will most likely stay on the project until December when they present the plan for discussion and comment to the Council. My supervisor has also said that I could potentially present some of my findings to the Council/local community, which would be a really great (unpaid) experience. We're almost there!

3 comments:

  1. Yay!! You can see the light!
    Everything sounds so technical: mathematics, biometricians... my brain would be swimming too!

    The opportunity to present the finding to the council will be great experience and a fantastic professional opportunity, congratulations! It is great when you can see that all the hard work pays off. Well done!

    I cant believe it is all starting to come to an end. I only have five more Saturdays to work (and the Brett Whiteley exhibition opening)... I will be sad to see our conversations come to an end.

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  2. Collating the survey data is sort of a tough thing because it is full of detailed information that you should pay attention to. I think it is really a good chance to challenge your ability of carefulness as well as your patience. Good luck with your following three-to-four-weeks internship. I hope everything is going along well there.

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