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Albert Dock
What is the title?
To what extent has the regeneration of the Albert Dock had a beneficial impact on the local area?
What are some advantages of using the Albert Docks for fieldwork?
Recent regeneration - people remember what it was like before, accurate info
Safe area - low risk when conducting investigations
Justify one method you used for your investigation. EQS
This allowed us to evaluate areas in a short amount of time, but is objective so lowers the accuracy of our investigation.
Justify one method you used for your investigation. Interviews
Allowed us to collect many opinions of locals and tourists to get valid information, but it was during a working day so some demographics weren’t at the docks (full-time workers, children) therefore may have been biased.
Justify one method you used for your investigation. Rephotography
We could compare the visual aspects of the site easily, but old photographs may have been biased.
Where are the Albert Docks?
Liverpool is in the North-West coast of England, bordering the River Mersey. The Albert Docks are near Chevassey Park, near the Salthouse dock.
Explain how one data presentation technique helped you to interpret the data. - Pie charts (questionnaire)
Using pie charts to present closed questions from my questionnaire. Easy to understand proportions of answers No clear value as to exactly how many people answered. However, it was a lot easier to find anomalies than other techniques.
Explain how one data presentation technique helped you to interpret the data. -Radar Graphs (eqs)
Can compare multiple areas on one graph but can be overwhelming visually or can be confusing.
Explain how one data presentation technique helped you to interpret the data. - Annotated photographs (rephotography)
Easy to do side-by-side comparisons and straightforward but is subjective and can be difficult to identify what to annotate.
