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Ami Ibaramoto
Cyber Tech
Dr.Bill
Developing Sustainable Habits in the Dorms
The overall goal of this project is to encourage members of our residential life to adopt sustainable habits. To do so, I will be learning stats, data management, and coding to create an online visual representation for our resource usages.
Phase 1 - Learning the Tools: These tools will be essential when collecting and presenting data to the community.
Milestone 1: the Tracker
Presents current water and electricity usage data in each dormitory (Carter, Robertson, Perry Fiske, and the Faculty Housings)
Milestone 2: the Server
Provides tracked water/electricity usage (data points)
The data points allow us to make a graph on EXCEL and numbers
Milestone 3: Mango
tracking/graphing system
automatically graphs rate and total usage
Milestone 4: HTML
Learned basics of HTML. I am hoping to use HTML for the visual component of my project.
Milestone 5: New Tracking System
Mr.McKenna is working on the new tracking system. I will be working with him to incorporate it more into residential life.
Phase 2 - Collect Data: I will be using the five tools mentioned in the previous section to obtain accurate data to create a visualization.
Milestone 1: Mango
I learned that the tracking system is inconsistent in its because of its connection with electricity(the computer sometimes gets turned off).
I've also looked at the data to find patterns in our water usages, to see where we are most likely to see improvements on
Milestone 2: The New Tracking System
I'm hoping to learn and work with Mr.McKenna more to figure out how I can work with the new system.
Phase 3 - Create Internal Visualization: The visual for my project would be in a software form (which will most likely be a website). To create such, I will be following these steps.
Milestone 1: Plan
talk to the adults involved in residential life and the sustainability project to get permission/figure out what I can do
Milestone 2: Create a visual (with HTML)
learn HTML and other techniques
make a website (or some form of an online visual)
by creating a visual I hope to
convert technical data/device into more every day/understandable elements
encourage sustainable behaviors
Phase 4 - Final Products: My final project would likely include the following elements.
The visual
online visual (HTML or any other online products)
Graphs
Graph and data of the resources used in the residential community
graph description and interpretation from it
Logs
recorded document of the progress(weekly updates)
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