Clean Data reflection Unit 2 Stage 13

Write in your blogs what you did to clean up the data and respond to the following prompt in your blog with the title Unit 2 Stage 13

“In order to analyze data with a computer, we need to clean the data first. Based on your experience today, would you say that data analysis is a perfectly objective process? Why or why not?”

To clean up the data, I first made sure all of the numbers were in the same format. One person did a range of numbers of 1-2 and 3-9, so I averaged them and put in 1.5 and 6. For the free form text answers, I split them up into categories such as netflix, games, music, and put a 1 there if they did it. The feeling free form text were mostly categorized, but I generalized it even more by making the categories, good, bad, and ok.

I think data analysis is not a perfectly objective process. You are the one who is deciding what category to put it in. Some people might have different ideas of what category it should go in, so it's not perfectly objective.