PLAN105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Virtual Reality, Census Tract, Mantra
2 Jan 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
We see the symptoms but we need to understand the cause. Like good writing, good graphical displays of data communicate ideas with clarity, precision, and efficiency. Like poor writing, bad graphical displays distort or obscure the data, make it harder to understand or compare, or otherwise thwart the communicative effect which the graph should convey. The sequence of research (inquiry) (cid:894)pla(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:396)(cid:859)s (cid:448)e(cid:396)sio(cid:374) of the (cid:862)s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) (cid:373)ethod(cid:863)(cid:895: selecting the topic, formulating the problem, formulating the hypothesis, relating findings to other knowledge, designing the research. Driven by the questions or problems which lend themselves to observation or experimentation. Topic can be suggested by theoretical interest or dictated by practical concerns: academics vs. practitioners. In academic research, problems are made concrete and specific, and the topic is narrowed: manageable and amendable to completion, proposal responding to funding opportunities or degree requirements. Planning problems in practice can generally appear to be quite concrete and specific.
