Class Journal Week 8
Contents
- 1 David Ramirez's Response
- 2 Kaitlyn Nguyen's Response
- 3 Christina Dominguez's Response
- 4 Naomi Tesfaiohannes's Response
- 5 Iliana Crespin's Responses
- 6 John Nimmers-Minor's Response
- 7 Aby Mesfin's Response
- 8 Michael Armas' Responses
- 9 Mihir Samdarshi' Response
- 10 Marcus Avila's Response
- 11 Links
- 12 Ivy Macaraeg's Response
- 13 DeLisa Madere's Response
- 14 Emma Young's Response
- 15 Jonar Cowan's Response
David Ramirez's Response
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- What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- The easiest part of the assignment was computing the averages of each time point in the excel worksheet. Finding the average was the easiest to understand because I understood what the function meant.
- What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- The most challenging was filtering the p-values from smallest to largest, then ranking them. After ranking them, the filter had to be taken off, and for some reason it was difficult to copy data in the correct order to the other excel worksheet without mixing up the data.
- What (yet) do you not understand?
- I still have a little confusion to what a p value that is greater than 0.05 means. I also do not fully understand what each part of the formulas that were inserted into the excel really mean. For example, I don't know what "ss" means in one of the headings of the table.
Dramir36 (talk) 23:45, 23 October 2019 (PDT)
Kaitlyn Nguyen's Response
- What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- The aspect that came the easiest to me was inputting the data into the excel worksheet, as well as, code the different equations into the columns.
- What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- The most challenging aspect of this assignment was uploading the data online, reformatting it, and remembering to upload any new, updated files onto the existing entry file name.
- What (yet) do you not understand?
- For this week's assignment, I have done all the listed activities asked. However, the one part I do not understand now is how and where to start analyzing the data.
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Knguye66 (talk) 16:28, 23 October 2019 (PDT)
Christina Dominguez's Response
What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
Working with the excel file came most easiest for me. Since I have experience with excel, I found that it helped me to be able to navigate the data and keep organized with new calculations and formulas.
What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
The STEM program was most challenging since it is a new program I have never worked with before. I had an error page the first time I tried to "evaluate" it, but I eventually was able to troubleshoot and solve the issue.
What (yet) do you not understand?
I do not understand the results of STEM, but I am sure after more familiarity I will.
Cdomin12 (talk) 22:22, 22 October 2019 (PDT)
Naomi Tesfaiohannes's Response
What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
The easiest part of this assignment was making the columns and expanding the function values in excel. This was easiest because of the previous work we have been doing with excel. This assignment built on the basic instructions we have followed so far.
What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
Using the filters. I would follow the instruction and turn the filter on but then leaving it on would change the values I get for the next step. I was unclear when to turn it on and off.
What (yet) do you not understand?
The profiles of STEM. It seems to have a separate place in this assignment. What do the different colors and charts represent?
Ntesfaio (talk) 11:03, 23 October 2019 (PDT) Bio DB Home page
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Iliana Crespin's Responses
- What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- The sanity check was pretty easy to do. It is using the same auto filter as other parts of the assignment, so it wasn't challenging to do.
- What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- It was difficult having to update the current version to wiki. It is easy following the steps of uploading and keeping the same name. However, it is odd how the link that is uploaded tends to be the outdated version and not the new one.
- What (yet) do you not understand?
John Nimmers-Minor's Response
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What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- Following the instructions in order to create the Excel sheet and run the logarithmic data was very simple for me.
What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- Finding certain aspects of the database organizing the database as a whole was pretty challenging because one wrong mistake messes up so much of your data and with so many cells in the Excel sheet, it's easy to mess something up.
What (yet) do you not understand?
- The STEM application and what the data all represents is something that I'd like to understand further if I'm expected to become proficient in utilizing the application for this class.
Jnimmers (talk) 23:56, 23 October 2019 (PDT)
Aby Mesfin's Response
What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
Filtering the data for significant p values was relatively easy for me becuase Excel's layout was more user friendly for this particular program.
What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
Using excel to calculate the p values was challenging because of how easily one little mistake made early in the procedure could have bad downstream effects. I had to redo parts of the calculations becuase the functions I was inputting into the cells was incorrect.
What (yet) do you not understand?
I still do not understand what the connection and purpose of the STEM software is in relation to analyzing the significance of the data.
Ymesfin (talk) 01:45, 23 October 2019 (PDT)
Michael Armas' Responses
What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- Using MS Excel came the easiest to me. I understand how to use simple functions, and the new ones I learned to use during this assignment were simple enough to use without instruction. Even writing conditional statements comes naturally so I had no real struggle with this part.
What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- Sometimes it was somewhat hard to follow the step-by-step procedure. This was mostly due to me getting lost in each step, and skipping a step or overlooking a key word or phrase. This would make the following steps more difficult and led to plenty of confusion. However, with Excel, fixing the data is done quickly so mistakes were fixed easily before moving onto the next step.
What (yet) do you not understand?
- I'm not too familiar with the STEM software and what it is analyzing. The results that were obtained were small line plots that were impossible to decipher. Labeling was minimal, and I was unable to understand what the colored graphs meant. However, I am confident that understanding the data will come easy in the upcoming weeks.
Marmas (talk) 20:19, 23 October 2019 (PDT)
Mihir Samdarshi' Response
What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
I was familiar with this aspect of the lab's data processing pipeline, having done it before. I think that the easiest part was being able to recognize why we were doing each calculations, and because I knew why, I was able to be sure that the formulas I was inputting was correct. I was also able to help others with calculations because of my previous experience as well.
What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
I think the most challenging aspect of this assignment was being sure that my data was accurate after inputting the formulas, and also maintaining the cells' data type. Often, the data type would switch and I would not have the right values. Overall, however, I was not as challenged as some of my peers while conducting the data processing.
What (yet) do you not understand?
I think that I understand the purpose of every operation that we carry out on the data, as it was pretty well explained in class. My only question is if we have to do this for every single microarray experiment that the lab carries out, why not just write a simple script that can import all of this data and do all of the corrections for us?
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Msamdars (talk) 20:21, 23 October 2019 (PDT)
Marcus Avila's Response
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- What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- Using the various functions to make the inputs and organization of the data came most easy to me.
- What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- I found it hardest to follow the small details. I sometimes had to troubleshoot errors because I forgot small detail, but eventually got everything to work out.
- What (yet) do you not understand?
- I still don't have very good grasp about what the various corrections do to the original p-value.
Mavila9 (talk) 22:30, 23 October 2019 (PDT)
Ivy Macaraeg's Response
- What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- -The thing that was easiest to do in this assignment was follow directions. Although some of the navigation through excel was a little confusing, I think I was able to do what was asked in terms of inputing the data in the file and figuring out how to view that data.
- What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- -The biggest challenge for me was viewing the data. It all looked overwhelming and confusing when I looked at the excel file, and it was sometimes frustrating to find what I wanted.
- What (yet) do you not understand?
- -I have yet to still understand why (besides for the purposes of counting) we needed to analyze all genes within the strain, and not just the ones we desired to look at.
Imacarae (talk) 00:01, 24 October 2019 (PDT)
DeLisa Madere's Response
- What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- I think what came most easily to me was using excel since I have previous experience with it.
- What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- The most challenging aspect of this assignment was understanding why we were doing all these calculations. I was confused on what goal we were achieving through them.
- What (yet) do you not understand?
- I still need clarification on the goal of performing this microarray data.
Dmadere (talk) 00:13, 24 October 2019 (PDT)
Emma Young's Response
- What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- Following the steps and uderstanding what we are supposed to be doing came the easiest for me.
- What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- The most challenging aspect to this assignment was honestly finding the time within the past two days to complete it.
- What (yet) do you not understand?
- I feel like I still do not fully understand how to interpret the statistical analysis.
Eyoung20 (talk) 00:19, 24 October 2019 (PDT)
Jonar Cowan's Response
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- What aspect of this assignment came most easily to you?
- I felt following the instructions and inputting data felt relatively easy.
- What aspect of this assignment was the most challenging for you?
- The most challenging aspect to this assignment was the tedious procedures and being able to finish this.
- What (yet) do you not understand?
- I do not understand how important the functionality of this works and why percentages are never exact.
