What?
Last week we visited the BYRC, received the financial files from January – April 2014, and gained a greater insight on our project. This week, we met our weekly goal: organizing and distributing the data evenly for all members to work on, and set a new goal of creating deadlines and discussed efficient ways of organizing data. We have done a lot of planning and preparing the past few weeks but this is the first week we are actually implementing what we have planned and diving into analyzing the financial files.
So What?
By creating deadlines and discussing our plan of action, we hope to analyze the files thoroughly and effectively. Deadlines will prompt us to spread out the workload, thus lowering the chances of procrastination and last minute analyzation of the data. As we are tasked to present spending trends, we wish to give the BYRC the best results by spending an adequate amount of time examining their files. We hope that most things go as planned but we do expect some ‘bumps on the road’ as our project unfolds.
Now What?
In the podcast “This American Life” – Poultry Slam 2011: Act 3: Latin Liver, Dan Brown recalls his meeting with Eduardo the geese farmer who raises his geese in their natural environment in order to create foie gras naturally and ethically. In the podcast, Brown mentions his years of attempt in order to recreate the farm Eduardo has established, but failing and resulting to trying new methods each year. As with our project, though we may have an idea of how to approach analyzing the data, it won’t be perfect on the first try. Our attempts at organizing the data may seem complicated and our methods inefficient, but through our attempts we hope to finish with an exceptionally made project. As mentioned in our previous blog as well, we will be seeking assistance from faculty members when we are unsure of our methods.
In the upcoming week we hope to have most of our data organized in order to start noticing trends and move forward with our project. Until next time!
-Group 12