As a person in an anthropological statistics class right now, I found this assignment quite difficult. We use a program called SAS in the lab times, and it appears to be very simplistic in comparison to Microsoft Access. Quantitative analysis could be made much easier with proper instructions on how to work the Microsoft Access program and but just be given general instructions on how to do simple things such as query but not be given instructions on more complicated means of data such as the questions presented in the Data Assignment. I felt that even with having lab drop in times, it was difficult to schedule them with class times, and with such a wide array of difficult questions, the assignment could have been laid out more clearly. Simple questions required mass amounts of knowledge to answer.
Cemetery data seems to be fairly interesting. I almost look forward to doing the monument analysis. It seems a fair bit complicated but I think as working with a group it might be easier done than said. I found the data in the cemetery analysis fairly easy to understand, but the only major complication was the ones with infants and/or babies. They were relatively hard to group together. No names was another area of the Evergreen Cemetery analysis that was difficult due to lack of clarity in the lab days.
With hardly any experience with using databases, I think they were beneficial in keeping information together and organized, but when it comes down to analysis they basically make things more complicated than they ever need to be.
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