Visualizing and Reflecting on Your Results

There was some difficulty understanding the blocks provided and finding the blocks to sort the data. --MF, 4/18/22

Split this page into two. --MF, 1/11/23

In this activity, you'll see what other questions you can explore about your investigation topic, create a visualization, and reflect on your results.

Asking Additional Questions

  1. Review what you have learned about your investigation and see if you can generate any other interesting questions to explore using the functions you've explored Snap!.
  2. Open your "Data Dos" project if it isn't open already. Then answer your additional questions using Snap!.

Importing Blocks from Another Project

Create this as a narrower on a separate page. See also Unit 2 Lab 2 Activity 10: Importing Code --MF, 7/25/23

In Snap!, you can use blocks that you've created in previous projects. For example, these data visualization tools from your first data project might be useful:

To use blocks from another project, you must first export them from the project where you built them and then import them into your current project.

  1. Export blocks' dialog box showing four blocks: draw pictograph with emojis: () title: () counts: 'list input slot'; count data 'list input slot'; split lines (); and sort data 'list input slot' by (). All blocks have a checkmark beside them except for split lines (). There are 'OK' and 'Cancel' buttons at the bottom. Export the blocks from your previous project.
    1. Save any changes to your "Data Dos" project, and open your "Visualizing Data" project.
    2. Choose "Export blocks..." from the Snap! file menu (File menu button).
    3. Deselect any block(s) you don't need such as the split lines block.
    4. Click "OK." An XML file will download to your computer.
  2. Import these blocks into your current project.
    1. Open your "Data Dos" project again.
    2. Drag the XML file that downloaded into the Snap! window to import it.

    If you see a message when you try to import that asks "Replace the current project with a new one?" it means that you exported a whole project instead of just its blocks. Click "No," and try exporting from "Data Dos" again.

    Is it still possible to get the obsolete block??

    It won't happen here, but if you ever see obsolete inside an imported block, it means a required block is missing. Delete the imported block, open the original project, and export again selecting all the blocks used inside the block you want.

  3. Select a survey question for your pictograph, and use count data together with draw pictograph to create your visualization.
    If your my survey watcher is in the way of your pictograph, you can move it, shrink it by dragging its lower right corner, or hide it by deselecting its checkbox in the palette on the left of the Snap! window.
  4. Talk with Your Partner Is there anything new that you notice looking at your data in this format?

Reflecting on Your Results

  1. Talk with Your Partner
    • What did you learn about your research topic?
    • Who might benefit from this information?
    • What other questions did your research raise about this topic?
    • How would your analysis change if you could survey 10,000 people with these questions?
    • What other Snap! tools could you build that would be helpful to research?
    • What other kinds of graphs would help visualize your data?
    • What other topics would you like to research in the future?
    2. Should we have them produce some kind of report/artifact here? (Per "2-IC-22: Collaborate with many contributors through... surveys when creating a computational artifact.") --MF, 3/1/22

In this activity, you expanded your data investigation by asking additional questions, imported visualization tools from your prior data project, and discussed possible extensions to your research.