BIOL398-03/S13:Class Journal Week 9
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Laura Terada Week 3 Journal
Reflection
- What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- Doing the basic excel functions came the easiest to me (ex: average, stdev).
- What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- The most challenging part was in the sanity check section where we had to use all the filters, since I have never used that feature before.
- What (yet) do you not understand?
- Nothing- the assignment was pretty straightforward!
- Does "crunching" the data yourself help you to understand microarray experiments better? Why or why not?
- It doesn't help me to understand the experiment better, but it also doesn't NOT help me. I understood microarray experiments before this assignment; however, I suppose this helps me in developing the skills needed to deal with raw data.
Laura Terada 14:20, 2 April 2013 (EDT)
- None of it came easily for me.
- Using excel is hard for me and was very time consuming with the tediousness of this assignment,.
- I need to review the statistics material, I had stats last semester but have apparently not retained much of what I learned.
- No, I could have gained the same knowledghe I did during this assignment seeing a worksheet with everything already performed, doing this just took a lot of time.
Kevin Matthew McKay 15:10, 2 April 2013 (EDT)
Kasey E. O'Connor Week 3 Journal
Reflection
- What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- Sorting all the data and filtering came the easiest to me.
- What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- The most challenging part of the assignment was keeping all the columns straight because there were so many. Making sure that I was using the correct column and row for each equation got a little confusing with all of the data.
- What (yet) do you not understand?
- There is nothing that I did not understand, it was a very easy assignment to follow because it was laid out so well.
- Does "crunching" the data yourself help you to understand microarray experiments better? Why or why not?
- Looking at and analyzing the data definitely helped me to understand it more. I was having a hard time trying to figure out how the data was normalized, so going through the process cleared that up. I am also a big number person, so this was a good assignment for me.
Kasey E. O'Connor 18:08, 2 April 2013 (EDT)