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Today, October 18, I arrived at Quarknet and began to work on the questions that Dr. Loughran posted on my wiki. After answering those questions, I discussed with Jeremiah where we thought we would be headed with regard to the newest project dealing with the E-lab. He is sufficiently confused as to how he will explain the "tech" of the new project, and I am also perplexed at how I will be graphing a myriad of different graphs to look at the trends. We will research further this week, and hopefully will have this concluded after our next meeting on Wednesday. Also, I will be organizing my logbook at home sometime this week to make things more easily recognizable and navigable.

At Quarknet on Wednesday, we discussed what we thought we should be working on. We feel as though we have sufficiently completed our page on cosmic rays using ManyEyes and the E-lab, so we wondered what each of us should be working on, having finished this project. We have some questions for John to discuss the meaning of many of the different options we can explore on ManyEyes, and we would like to begin working with this, getting to analyze the different data to find some more trends. We feel like we could begin to observe different graphs on ManyEyes, but decided that it seems like it would be a waste of time without the knowledge that John has about knowing what we are seeing. Jeremiah and myself were working on the E-lab, and we both feel that there are no more different ways to effectively view the data in a way that will shed light on more trends. Without all of the different viewpoints that ManyEyes offers, the E-lab seems to be more of a dead end.



This graph is one example of something that I would like to try to understand. However, without a quick lesson from John or Dr. Loughran, I don't know what I am looking at.



Again, this is a similarly baffling graph that I wish to understand.