8. Evaluation

Sanne

I must admit, that I started to dislike this project while we were working on it. Making graphs and trying to put pictures on a blog, takes a lot of time. And the effort doesn’t really show. While I was making the Journal I noticed that I put a lot of time in this research, while I feel that this time could have been spent more usefully. 22 hours… Unbelievable. Due to the postponing of the presentation of our results, I kept pushing things ahead. It is not that strange that we haven’t been able to reach our planning! I did really enjoy doing research in the field. Asking people questions in both streets, was a whole lot of fun! I really got the hang of it! The cooperation with Yona went perfect, as usual! Even though I didn’t enjoy working on this practical assignment as much as I usually do. I think the result is great!

Yona

We were inspired by my father’s current research about shopping streets. I was very happy with this subject, because it’s so very interesting. Throughout the practical assignment it got more and more interesting. Especially the part about the history of both streets I thoroughly enjoyed, but searching for patterns in data was also very interesting. And when you actually find a pattern (or what I thought was a pattern), it gives one a brilliant feeling.
As always the cooperation was perfect. The only thing that went wrong with this assignment was, that it took me incredibly long to make tables of the data of the shops. And when I asked my father to help me out he did with Excel in ten minutes, what I had spent five hours on. So that was a lot of wasted time.
Now after this research, I’m sure that next time I’ll visit either of the two streets, I’ll look at it from a very different perspective. It’s always nice when a school assignment actually has an effect upon your daily life.