Today is my first day visiting United Way of Allen County and learning about our project. United Way of Allen County has been working on gathering data from various groups of people in the community regarding to how they want the community to be liked and what major problems that seemed concerning. From the data gathered, they divided the data into 6 major themes: education, basic needs, financial stability, safety, diversity/inclusion, and health/wellness. The next step then is to compare these "public knowledge" data as they called it with the "expert data" from researchers. This is where my partner and my role come in. In general, our project (Mehvish and I) focused on gathering data from the "expert data" in these 6 themes to analyze how concerning these themes are. Using the result from our project, United Way of Allen County might be able to narrow down one big theme that they can focus on. With that said, we splitted the 6 themes between 2 of us. I will be working on gathering data for themes in education, basic needs, and financial stability. I am very exciting and curious of what type of data I will find. I am also very curious of how these data from research compared to the "public knowledge" data. I look forward to our project and hopefully we can help the organization with our findings!
--Dinh
--Dinh