63s Seating:
As a group we came up with a few ideas for the seating at 63's including problems and students preferences. We have noticed in the past that whenever mahogany room is closed, there is a deficit of seating for students to eat. We have also noticed that students have a preference where they sit whether it be the couches, tables, or window seats. We are going to try to analyze the seating patterns and see why students prefer certain areas over others.Hypothetical Data
The data will be presented as a diagram of the chairs/tables at 63's, and we think that, in this section, the big seat along the tables at the top and the big corner on the right will be the more popular areas.
Charlie and Marlon's Research:
This picture is Charlie's raw data for the half of 63's non-Mahogany seating that's closest to the windows. The checks represent men while the x's represent women. Brackets are seats, and circles/ovals are tables.
The initial analysis of Charlie's data is that there were lots of people sitting at the long seat next to the five small tables, and the couch booths at the top of the diagram. Additionally, there were more groups sitting in the area at the top of the diagram, while the bottom had mostly people eating alone.
The raw data can function as the presented data, because it's easier to show concentration than if the checks/x's were counted and then displayed. The prediction that there would be a lot of people on the long seat was correct; however, there were actually not that many people sitting in the corner at the lower right, and they were all sitting alone.
David and Nick's Research:
This picture represents our raw data without a graph. We separated the chart into male and female and multiple categories of choices in order to get the most accurate representation.
This picture represents our seating chart for the people that eat in the mahogany room, as you can see the people prefer the inside tables as well as the larger outside tables rather than the smaller outside tables, so they can fit more of their friends at a a table.
Trends:
In the Mahogany Room David and I saw and collected data on several trends. We noticed that students preferred the seating in the center of the room over the seating on the outside, as well as the preference towards larger tables because most of the people that eat in this room come in with larger groups than the regular dining area. We also noticed that exactly half of the students in the Mahogany room said that they preferred eating in there rather than the actual dining room, this brings up the question "Why is the mahogany room sometimes closed off even though 50% of students prefer to eat in there?"
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1onLULhx1LnHaAUfQQr4Hl53bXK2ahHTCS_YTt3s_giw/edit?usp=sharing
