Week+of+10-8+to+10-14

October 8th
Today I arrived at 4:00. Today was the day for me to put my fair share into the CMS group project. Grace and I were assigned the ManyEyes side. She had already put a good deal of information and pictures in, and it was my job to make it into one final, cohesive product. I corrected some minor language errors, reworked some sentences here and there to be more clear, and reformatted things a little bit. Grace had gotten the nuts and bolts of our argument in, and it was my job to make it look and sound good. The two most significant thing I added were the explanation of why we used the criteria we did to seek out cosmic rays and the explanation of the capability/usefulness of ManyEyes. I finished this around 5:00. By that time, Jason and Jeremiah had also finished their explanation of the e-Lab side, and neither Dr. L or John was around, so we figured we had put in a good day's work and we headed out around 5:15.

October 10th
Today Grace, Jason, Jeremiah and I arrived at QuarkNet around 3:45. We discovered after we came in and talked to a couple people who were around that Dr. L would probably not be around. None of us were crystal clear on how to go forward with the ManyEyes graph project that Dr. L had begun to explain last week, so we did not have a whole lot to do. We also realized that since this project would most likely involve more knowledge of the different available axis options, we would need to get a lesson from John or Dr. L before proceeding. We contacted John and learned that he also was not coming into QuarkNet today. Since we could not gain further knowledge about the project, the most we could do was spend a little time in ManyEyes playing around and finding some interesting-looking graphs. One clear and interesting new pattern I found involving some variables I know absolutely nothing about had to do with the relationship between the Phi angles and the "px1", "py1", and "pz1". Below are the graphs of Phi 2 vs Phi 1 with dot size set as px1 for the first graph, py1 for the second, and pz1 for the third. I am guessing that the red dots are of negative value for whatever is chosen as dot size, and the blue ones have a positive value. In that case, the pattern of where the dot size starkly changes from positive to negative or vice versa in px1 and py1 but not pz1 was interesting to me. We could not go into detail about the graphs we found, though, because of the situation. We left at about 4:45