Visualization

 Challenge and Selection

As statistician, I’m helping different people with different fields of expertise in their  researches and thesis. Most of the time, I give assistance to college and masters  students with different backgrounds like agriculture, forestry, environmental science,  human ecology, development communication, economics, health, chemistry,  criminology, hotel and restaurant management, engineering and others. Using  visualizations and diagrams, our conversations about the objectives and hypothesis are  simplified and the needed analyses are also revealed.

 Application

My requirement for every research and thesis is for them to send first the background  of the study, objectives, hypothesis and review of related studies. It will give me some  time to read and understand the topic since my field is different from them. I will draw  some diagrams of the objectives, the important variables needed for the study and even  possible analysis. I make some diagrams of the available variables and try it to connect  to others.      Students from Engineering College have a study about Train Transportation which is  known in our country as ‘LRT1’, ‘LRT2’ and ‘MRT’. The provided visualization is the map  of LRT1, LRT2 and MRT and the designated stations and locations for every stop of the  trains. Many variables are included in the study like rush hour time, day in a week,  holidays or regular days, type of train, number of waiting time between two trains per  station or headways, and others.     After knowing the details of the study of the engineering students, I visualize the  analysis through diagrams. I put in one diagram the independent variables like rush hour  time, day in the week, holidays and regular days, type of train and the other diagram for  the headways which is the dependent variable. Using the diagram, I explain to them the  possible analysis and come up with linear relationship analysis between the  independent and dependent variables.

 Insight & Approach

I realize that every people have their own different expertise and every expertise is like  a language that not everyone can easily understood. But by using visualization, the  communication barrier of different fields is strip off. The engineering students use the  visualization so that I can fully understand their study. As statistician, I use diagrams to  explain to them the concept of the analysis and the result of the study.

