Human Field Work - River Darent

Question 1

Risks

Answer 1

Traffic, weather, strangers, lost

Question 2

Data collection methods

Answer 2

EQS, traffic count, epitome words

Question 3

Environmental quality survey

Answer 3

-2 to 2, ranking local environment based on buildings, litter, garden maintenance, community, safety, how busy. Tallied for score = higher = better environment. Qualitative, combine 25 for reliability

Question 4

Traffic count process

Answer 4

2 minutes, cars and Lorrie’s separate, how busy, indication of QoL, economic activity, quantitative

Question 5

Epitome words process

Answer 5

Summing up emotional response to South Darenth, formulate description whether location is +/-, put word cloud generator (frequency size), qualitative

Question 6

Data presentation methods

Answer 6

Proportional circles (indicate quality, scale indicating numerical value, see patterns = closer centre larger), stacker bar chart (proportion of traffic, see clearly busier and uses = centre higher so demand), word cloud (subjective understanding, easily see words)

Question 7

Reliable data

Answer 7

25 data sets combined for EQS subjective drawbacks reduced, discard anomalies

Question 8

Improving

Answer 8

Come back over times of year, count traffic for longer period of time, use other presentation methods as circles lacked accuracy, more quantitative data as data was largely subjective

Question 9

Conclusion

Answer 9

South Darenth is somewhat a nice living area, great differences across sites (Jolly Miller 5.5 Newsagent -4.1), varying traffic (84, 41), mixed picture, location dependant