ISSS608 2016-17 T1 Assign2 Lim Hui Ting Jaclyn
Introduction
Most faculty members have a tendency to avoid using Wikipedia as a source of reference and teaching material. In the given dataset, the survey was conducted to faculty members with regards to Wikipedia and online platforms. The theme that I have chosen would be the usage of Wikipedia. As such, I would like to find out why faculty members would use Wikipedia, what kind of faculty members would tend to use Wikipedia, and if there are differences between UOC and UPF members with regards to their usage and perception towards Wikipedia. By answering these questions, I will be able to understand why faculty members have used, or if not, will encourage the use of Wikipedia.
Questions for Investigation:
- What are the main reasons for faculty members to use Wikipedia?
- What is the profile of faculty members who are users of Wikipedia?
- Are there differences between faculty members solely in UOC, and in UPF, with regards to their usage of Wikipedia?
Data
The data was taken from Wiki4HE. It consists of survey questions that were given to university faculty members, in order to find out about the perception and practices of them using Wikipedia.
The attribute table can also be found from Wiki4HE.
AGE: numeric
GENDER: 0=Male; 1=Female
DOMAIN: 1=Arts & Humanities; 2=Sciences; 3=Health Sciences; 4=Engineering & Architecture; 5=Law & Politics
PhD: 0=No; 1=Yes
YEARSEXP (years of university teaching experience): numeric
UNIVERSITY: 1=UOC; 2=UPF
UOC_POSITION (academic position of UOC members): 1=Professor; 2=Associate; 3=Assistant; 4=Lecturer; 5=Instructor; 6=Adjunct
OTHER (main job in another university for part-time members): 1=Yes; 2=No
OTHER_POSITION (work as part-time in another university and UPF members): 1=Professor; 2=Associate; 3=Assistant; 4=Lecturer; 5=Instructor; 6=Adjunct
USERWIKI (Wikipedia registered user): 0=No; 1=Yes
The 43 survey items are ranked on a Likert scale (1-5) ranging from strongly disagree / never (1) to strongly agree / always (5).
Software Used:
JMP: Used mostly for data cleaning purposes
Excel: Used for data cleaning, and for the Tableau add-in
Tabluea: Used for data visualisations
Tibco Spotfire: Used for data visualisations
Camtasia: Used to record a video of a visualisation on Tibco Spotfire
