feb 18 2021 // day 43 of 100 days of productivity
draft frequency tables on verb and wh_type
research syntax for anova_test()
review consent and send compensations
draft responses to whorfianism questions
it’s been such slow going with data analysis and this week I’ve already put more than ten hours into data wrangling and reading documentation and tutorials on different functions. the good news is that I’m not feeling nearly as frustrated as I did yesterday or the day before, and only part of that is thanks to the huge fluffy snowflakes outside.
some part of me was convinced that my value as a student and researcher was directly related to how few days it would take for me to turn around the analysis on this project and get it to my advisor. I don’t know where I got that notion since 1) stats definitely isn’t my strong suit 2) I had no idea how to do an actual anova in R before and 3) my advisor has decades of experience so of course she’ll be faster at this than I am. in the end, I realized that I’m learning and accomplishing one new and important thing a day in RStudio and that’s more than enough. for instance, learning about tidy data yesterday meant I could reorganize my data in a better way. then today I learned to make frequency tables with dplyr that I could finally use with anova_test(). the time between coding sessions really helped me see things more clearly and kept me from tearing my hair out.
anyway, it’s time to get back to my homework...