How do you find using Access and Excel for working with this
kind of data? What is the difference for you between wading through a cemetery
in a database, versus wandering through it in real life?
When using Excel and Access, the information is all there,
but the experience is not. I am a visual
person, and without having the hands-on connection to the cemetery site, the
information did not have that much meaning.
If we had the opportunity to walk through the cemetery and connect each
grave with what data we have, then it would have been much more
significant. These graves are more than
just information to be processed; they are special places containing people who
are important to someone. By transferring
that person into a data spreadsheet, their importance is lost to us. It are simply data, information from a time
before us, information for us to analyze and critique. Cemeteries and sacred places, there is a
certain atmosphere that demands reverence.
Personally seeing and experiencing this atmosphere would help to ground
our thoughts and ideas. Seeing the
landscape, the whole picture, and where
the graves are laid out, can also greatly aid one’s understanding of the
information present as well. The data on
Excel and Access gave me information about a cemetery, but I had nothing to
reference that data to. I was not aware
of how big St. Stephens is, how many burials are there, how many graves are in
the data and what was left out if any.
By connecting the reality with the data, the awareness of all the issues
and possible problems surrounding the topic is raised.
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