Guess who’s back, back again. Ellis and Riley are back, tell a friend. We started off today by getting feedback on presentations that we will be giving at events on Tuesday and Wednesday (more to come in blog posts ahead).
After we met to conclude our work for Project 2. This project focused on scheduling shifts at a restaurant. Each shift had a workload requirement, and our goal was to minimise the number of people the restaurant had to hire to cover the workload requirements. There were several groups, each with different approaches to the problem, and that was brilliant to see. After hearing the presentations and getting feedback from the professors, we made preparations to head out to the Magic Kingdom, and we got some ice cream
We have commenced work for our final project; however, in contrast to our previous projects where we were given data to work with, our new projects require us to be in the park collecting the data we need. Fortunately, we have spent a week and a half getting to know Disney World and its rides, so our time in Magic Kingdom today was not about riding rides, but collating data and exploring possible questions for our projects. We are now interacting with the park in a new way, and this is causing us to run into new problems we otherwise never would have. For instance, some groups were only able to stay and collect data for a limited time frame and data collection ran a bit slow.
Ellis and I are both in the same group, along with Alyssa, Hayes, Katie, and Will, and the information that was most relevant to us was the party size distribution of people going on certain rides. To do this, we selected some rides, Pirates of the Caribbean, It’s a Small World, amongst several others, and we would join the queues and attempt to count out the numbers in which people arrived. There are several setbacks we have faced in our attempts at data collection, but those setbacks are forcing us to be creative and develop workarounds to our limitations. As mentioned earlier, our class has been sectioned into different groups with each working on a different project, but everyone is contributing to every project through data collection. Furthermore, because of the time we’ve spent together working on projects, writing blogs, and exploring Disney World, we’re able to work as a team and collaborate. Data collection can be tedious, but everyone is supportive of one another, and that makes it a tad easier.
That being said, it has been a truly busy day, but fun and fulfilling nonetheless. We’ve only just begun collecting data and answering our questions, so we are super excited to see how everything develops from here as we approach the end.
Well, till next time.
Cheers from Riley and Ellis
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