This week we were shown a presentation by our guest speaker Yimi. This presentation was a guide about generation your own survey or questionnaire. This presentation was helpful because we were in the final touch stages of our survey and wanted to make sure our survey was clear, easy to read and provided enough information for the students to understand. There were a few points that I found super helpful that made us go back to make changes to our own survey. We were provided with 6 simple steps to make sure our survey was in great shape such as having a clear goal at the start and a target audience. In the beginning of the survey we have a short introduction that ensures the survey taker knows what they’re answering questions about and they know as students they’re the target audience. We were given tips on making sure we didn’t leave too many open ended questions as well as too long of a survey. I tried to add in elements such as a sliders and ratings to keep the survey interesting. Looking back at the survey I made sure I swapped out some of the longer answers to shorter answers so the takers wouldn’t feel overwhelmed to write a longer answer. Yimi wrote some benefits and limitations to creating a long ended answer. Another thing I learned was writing opened ended questions instead of closed ended. Creating closed ended questions can result in survey takers writing just yes or no. One of the challenges I faced was distributing the survey. I never attended orientation so I had to answer the questions around that and then find more of my classmates to take the survey that did.

The three charts I picked to best visualize my findings from the survey data are:

Pie chart: This chart is great to show the information of the yes and no questions.

Bar Chart: This chart can easily show the amount of students in a department or borough easily sorted by color and the size of the bar.

Bubble Map: This chart can be used to show the amount of students within a borough and location.