Blog Posting #7. Feasibility Reports

Part 1:
             Chapter 6 focuses on the reader centered approach to conduct research. The chapter begins by introducing how to define reader centered goals for research. Some of the guidelines to follow are to identifying information that the reader will fund useful and persuasive and identifying the criteria by which readers will evaluate the standard of the research we conducted. It is important that the results of the reader centered research should be thoroughly analyzed, extracted from credible sources, gathered from unbiased sources,and complete. In order to gather information that the user/reader needs, we should identify complete range of sources and methods available, use credible and unbiased secondary sources, identify subgroups and collect information that can be analyzed by them. For the research that we will be conducting, we should also follow these conventions. It is also critical to review the research objectives and arrange the information in an analyzable and meaningful form. The author also provides some guidelines on thinking critically though out the research process to analyze the gathered information. Some ways to do that is by avoiding personal biases, valuing counter evidences and carefully considering the sources that we have picked. The chapter ends by giving some ethical guidelines for documenting sources to credit the sources of our idea by including references, bibliography, citations, or foot notes.

Part 2: 
    Sample 2: 

1. Conducted test and tallied the maximum number of data-fed visuals allowed on the screen. 
2. Conducted interviews with experts
3. Conducted interview with team's artist
4. Conducted interview with Preme's personnel
5. Web research

     In addition to these methods, the team could have predicted the estimate time of completion based      on prior experiences on development time.
    Sample 3: 

1. Internet research
2. Brainstorming
3. Researched various natural language processing libraries
4. Looked into into open source technology to cut cost
5. Researched the Twitter API limits

    In addition to these methods, the team could have interviews the expert and asked for their recommendations on the model and the libraries. 

Part 3: 
          The first example, some of the ideas were redundant while evaluating. Even though there was redundancy, there was also a lack of information at the same time. This sample has a table that is not very effective because it was very vague. The second example follows the table based format for the evaluation. This is used to effectively show how the alternative solutions is linked to their criteria. This evaluations seems to be more reliable and persuasive because it examines the alternatives separately. The table in sample 2 makes it visually easier for the reader to get a quick summary of the actual data.