Create a blog post discussing your table or graph. Did you have any difficulties organizing, aggregating or summarizing your data? Was the outcome as you expected? Did your data reveal anything unexpected or give you any ideas for further exploration?
I did have some difficulty organizing my data, since I have more than one independent (predictor) variable, I was unsure if I should combine both predictor variables into one graph or make the graphs separate. I ultimately decided to separate them so as to better see the patterns of sun exposure level and substrate moisture levels on pollination frequencies separately. Secondly, I was unsure how I should present my data since it was collected over three consecutive days. I was unsure if I should organize it by day or sum the values from each day with each corresponding level of sun exposure, and I decided on the latter since my hypothesis is evaluating based on sun exposure, and not by other potential variables such as temperature, wind, etc, and those variables differ from each sample day. The outcome is slightly different than I expected, as I expected a more clear-cut positive correlation between increasing sun exposure and pollinator counts. Although, overall, the areas with the least amount of sun did have the least amount of pollinator visits and vice versa so it does correspond with my original hypothesis. What was unexpected was that the level 3 of sun exposure was the second most visited by pollinators, as opposed to the predicted level 4. This is interesting, and prompts ideas for further exploration, to see if pollinators maybe prefer mid-range sun exposure and full exposure over all others.