CPSC-547 Project #3

- My Results and Experiences on WebGrid

1. Exploration

• I used my interest in Rodeo as the subject for my grid. I decided to use only those events seen at the Canadian Finals Rodeo. I believe that there are several things that distinguish each event, Danger, Timed or Rough Stock and Men or Ladies. I then added more items to try and further class them. The grid created basically places the Rough Stock events together and the Timed events together, because all are very similar. Ladies barrel racing is off by itself but on the timed event side.
• My initial impression of WebGrid is that it can help you hone in on certain ideas but I kept thinking I should use constructs that I had already used. It seemed that those constructs should have classified the items. Maybe this is showing me similarities that I didn't realize before. I think that some help is required to make WebGrids use much easier. For example what is a construct? I am not sure how to interpret the resulting graphs. I liked the triad approach to distinguishing items. It really makes you think when the items get very close.
• My Rodeo Grid

2. Elicitation of constructs on CPSC-547 topics

• I basically used general characteristics that were appropriate for several of the topics. I found that broad band networks and the information highway were hard to distinguish from each other. The topics were very broad in their range of items they handle. They are not really related.
• The grid basically places the language related items at one end and the networks and systems to the other end.
• My grid seems o be similar in ways to the original but the constructs used are different.
• My CPSC-547 Grid

3. Elicitation of constructs on your presentation topic

• All of the constructs seem to be interrelated to the others, none are clearly the same as the others. But they all hold some similarity.
• I don't quite understand the analyze.
• My Presentation Grid