So I chose not to actually do this lab report for class. We had a loss of communication within my group over the weekend (no one at fault), and between work, other classes, and not understanding the lab fully, I am choosing to skip it. I found the lab very interesting in concept, bringing up some research I would have never seen or hear about. The crowdsourcing of information was also too rough to gain knowledge of since not everyone uses large social media platforms to broadcast information nor have the time to conduct in-person crowdsourcing of information. I think this lab should have had more than a weekend to do, along with it not being a journalistic story. I get that we can report data, but some counties didn't have any data that was interesting that could be spun into a story. Macomb County had a few data sets that were interesting but the data in them wasn't enough to really spin a story out of it. Really, this assignment should have been more of a data collection comparison, less journalistic with making a story out of it, and more reporting the data in journalistic styling would have made the assignment a lot easier and enjoyable to complete.
- Allan Bush