Lara: Sunday, June 2
The last day of data gathering was both relieving, and a reminder that the work has only just begun. Once 12:00pm rolled around and 100 surveys had been officially collected, I took the remainder of the day to start logging the responses. It is arduous and monotonous work, but absolutely necessary to make a preliminary assessment regarding visitor thoughts and feelings.
Logistically speaking, the three iterations of the survey instrument has made it somewhat difficult to align everything on the same spreadsheet. The changes to and additions of questions across the instruments has made me begin to think about how we can effectively, and meaningfully assess the data as a whole, or if it will be necessary to break the responses apart by the instrument they were gathered under. I expect to go into more detail with Jess when she returns regarding the most useful format for the spreadsheet's structure to query information effectively. In the meantime, I am structuring my current spreadsheet on the basis of an example I found on the desktop, and will have Jess review it for accuracy.
One consistency I have found is the confusion of answers visitors gave in response to the probing questions, i.e. the "Which halls did you visit?" and "What stood out from the gallery/ies you visited?" Many times visitors responded in a general way that including considerations of all museum galleries, not just the African gallery or Imagine Africa. I will be interested how helpful these responses will eventually be to our analysis. Considering the amount of data compiled from Imagine Africa, even if these questions aren't useful, it will not be too much of a hit to the survey's usefulness to our research missions and goals.
For now, next steps are more data entry!
Logistically speaking, the three iterations of the survey instrument has made it somewhat difficult to align everything on the same spreadsheet. The changes to and additions of questions across the instruments has made me begin to think about how we can effectively, and meaningfully assess the data as a whole, or if it will be necessary to break the responses apart by the instrument they were gathered under. I expect to go into more detail with Jess when she returns regarding the most useful format for the spreadsheet's structure to query information effectively. In the meantime, I am structuring my current spreadsheet on the basis of an example I found on the desktop, and will have Jess review it for accuracy.
One consistency I have found is the confusion of answers visitors gave in response to the probing questions, i.e. the "Which halls did you visit?" and "What stood out from the gallery/ies you visited?" Many times visitors responded in a general way that including considerations of all museum galleries, not just the African gallery or Imagine Africa. I will be interested how helpful these responses will eventually be to our analysis. Considering the amount of data compiled from Imagine Africa, even if these questions aren't useful, it will not be too much of a hit to the survey's usefulness to our research missions and goals.
For now, next steps are more data entry!
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