Dr. Dunst Reflection

From what I can remember Dr. Dunst came to our classroom to speak upon data collection in comics. He spoke about how there are many different types and forms of data collection that are associated with comics, and he showed some examples of this. I thought he was very clear when he spoke upon the way the data they collected was actually formed. They put the data into a table so it was very simple to read and compare the different entries. I think that Dr. Dunst made an impact on how I will approach viewing comic strips for the rest of the semester in a big way. He made me think about all of the different types of data that can possibly be collected from the comics we see every day. It can be very specific things such as number of characters on the page. I remember asking a question about a boy who was on the page, but he was not included in the count of the characters on the page. Dr. Dunst said that it was due to the fact that the boy was not interacting with any of the other characters on the page. This was very interesting to me because the data made it seem as if the boy was not there even though he was, so this was a cool insight into how the data was actually being collected. This connects to and reminds me of our Data Modeling chapter that we read for class. Specifically, when the reading spoke about structured and unstructured data because of how he structured his data into a neat table that was very clear and structured, rather than providing a description.