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Reflection
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)
James P. McDonald Week 9 Journal
- What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- Finding the averages and standard deviations of the data using the excel formulas came the easiest to me.
- What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- Using the filtering function for the sanity check was challenging at first because it was the first time I had ever used it.
- What (yet) do you not understand?
- There was no part of this assignment that I did not understand because the instructions were straightforward.
- Does "crunching" the data yourself help you to understand microarray experiments better? Why or why not?
- I was initially unsure how the massive amounts produced by microarrays were analyzed but I now understand how this data can be organized efficiently.
James P. McDonald 21:02, 2 April 2013 (EDT)
Helena M. Olivieri Week 9 Journal
- What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- The simple statistical analysis came the most easily.
- What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- If you don't keep the data organized and stay focused, it becomes very easy to make a simple mistake. So I suppose, staying engaged in the number "crunching" can be a little challenging.
- What (yet) do you not understand?
- How we are going to analyze and compare our data when looking at more than one microarray data set.
- Does "crunching" the data yourself help you to understand microarray experiments better? Why or why not?
- So far, "crunching" the data has been a good hands on way to understand microarray experiments and data. But, the work is very tedious and after a while it becomes a little difficult not to become somewhat robotic.
Helena M. Olivieri 21:32, 2 April 2013 (EDT)
Matthew E. Jurek Week 9
- What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- I found that the basic Excel functions came most easily to me. Taking averages and creating the basic formulas within Excel wasn't too difficult.
- What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- The hardest part was working with such a large spreadsheet. I've never worked with a sheet this large. It was easy to lose my place or mix up columns. Working with such a wide array of data was challenging at times.
- What (yet) do you not understand?
- I'm not sure I did the Bonferroni correction properly. Following the correction, I had zero p values that were less then .05 across all time points. Based on the questions following the correction I feel that's wrong. I checked my work a few times and still found zero p values in that range. I understand what the correction is geared towards, but I'm not sure it worked properly on my spreadsheet.
- Does "crunching" the data yourself help you to understand microarray experiments better? Why or why not?
- It appears a majority of the experiment is "crunching" numbers on a spreadsheet. Seeing that I just did this crunching, I would say I've done a majority of the experiment. Since these experiments are so data intensive, I feel I have a better understanding.
- Matthew E. Jurek 22:47, 2 April 2013 (EDT):
Salman Ahmad Week 9 Journal
- What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- It was pretty easy to follow along in class and do the parts of the assignment we went over.
- What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- It was hard to keep everything straight. I ended up getting a few strange results, so I had to go back and do it a few times before it ended up being correct.
- What (yet) do you not understand?
- I don't understand the reasoning behind the Bonferroni correction. It seems like it is unlikely to have many p-values after doing the calculation.
- Does "crunching" the data yourself help you to understand microarray experiments better? Why or why not?
- Yes. I now realize that working out all of the numbers is how to actually interpret the results from a microarray. It is easier to see now how specific genes can be picked out from the other thousands of genes that we are looking at.
Salman Ahmad 00:28, 3 April 2013 (EDT)