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October 15:
This week, the group and I will be focusing on isolating specific variables from ManyEyes, and learning about what they represent, and pointing out trends that we find. Before this, I worked with the E-lab data to make a screencast video of how I went about finding these graphs. The video will be posted on the group CMS Project page. An explanation of the process is in the video. I also listened in on Dr. Loughran's discussion with Alex about the different parameters, specifically the parent rest frame. The parent rest frame looks at the resulting particles from the perspective of the position of the parent particle. This is relevant to the notion that each particle resulting from a parent particle will have equal and opposite data points, parallel with the law of conservation of momentum. After learning much about the graphs that are shown on ManyEyes, this week I will continue to capture images and choose ten graphs to display.

October 17:
Alex and I began to work at Quarknet today on our ManyEyes project. Using some images of graphs that I took Monday, I will look at what they mean, and I will look further throughout ManyEyes to find other interesting graphs.

The first graph that interested me was the graph showing pt2 on the Y-axis, and pt1 on the X-axis. The image showed a clear cluster of a linear arrangement of spots, all having a large mass. This means that these particles of high momentum and high mass all gather in a similar range, probably cosmic rays. 

To look further, I highlighted the linear arrangement inside the red box to look at other graphs with those points in question. To my delight, they are the same points that appear where we determined cosmic rays were in other graphs. Here is where we see those points.

I chose to look at this graph as well. I noticed that it appears to have a sinusoidal pattern along the X-axis, yet I am struggling to determine what this means. Nevertheless, I feel like this look at the momentum on the z axis is significant.