Research Paper - Information Technology And Culture
The final project was to complete a research paper or an argumentative essay exploring a specific relationship between communication technology and some aspect of culture, i.e., educational, professional, political, interpersonal, legal, recreational, and ethical. From a list of approximately 30 topics, I chose to write about the future of warfare. Specifically, the evolution of warfare as it relates to technology, highlighting battles where there were significant changes or upgrades to the logistical strategy, weapons, equipment, and the impact or effects on culture over time to present-day tactics and weapons. The title of this paper is an Analysis of The Evolution of Warfare From Conventional to Cyber and the Future from a Technological and Cultural Perspective.
Grant And Proposal Writing
The final project for this class was to write a mock grant proposal that proposes chose to write a proposal on behalf of the Sacramento Food Bank, a nonprofit provider of basic human needs in Sacramento County. Students gained exposure to all aspects of the grant writing process; this assignment included everything from finding funding sources to composing a viable grant proposal. As part of this assignment, students must create a feasible program complete with a budget, objectives, evaluation plan, and outcomes. The program proposed would provide home delivery of food boxes for Seniors and disabled people within Sacramento County. My program would hire and train new staff, schedule distribution increases, adjust existing delivery routes to include home deliveries, and develop an app to handle incoming food requests, inventory, and distribution routes.
Research Paper Visualizing Data and Information
This was one of my favorite ASU classes because it showed me new and exciting ways to present data. Using R for the first time, I was exposed to many new ways to display data that produce new visualizations beyond the basic templated spreadsheets, pie charts, or bar graphs reports found in Excel, word, or other cookie-cutter reports writers. R Markdown is powerful because it accommodates the best of both worlds; Basic reports are represented by spreadsheets, pie charts, or bar graphs but also visualizations in the form of bubble charts, heat maps, and an impressive array of other charts, graphs, and maps. R Markdown enables you to generate reproducible and dynamic reports straight from your R code, documenting your works as an HTML, PDF, Word, slideshows, and more. R studio had hundreds of packages to choose from and generated the report in various formats depending on the information the user was working with. I used RMarkdown files in R-studio to generate the posters shown here. Markdown files in Rstudio and generate reports in various formats. All are designed to make data visually interesting and impactful, but the data comes to life and tells a story, allowing the student to communicate and tell a story.
