Analysis Post Week 1

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According to the poll question, which is "How do you think cloud computing can help students?", we have received several votes from our guests. This post is an analysis on the compiled results. Prior to the poll results, we have simplified the results into a pie chart as below :

We have provided multiple choices for the poll. The percentage of total votes for each choice is below:
A) Extra backup (20%)
B) Easy download of software's (20%)
C) Can manage files easily (10%)
D) All of the above (10%)
E) None of the above (40%)


From the pie chart, we can clearly see that the choice with the highest number of votes is "None of the above", whereby 40% of the total voters agreed that none of the above options can help students. This is because some voters may not have a strong understanding about cloud computing or have never heard of the term before. However, there are some who are aware of cloud computing but disagree towards the idea because they believe that cloud computing is more for business, and serious use rather than for students. The choices with the second most votes is "Extra backup" and "Easy download of software". This is probably because majority of the voters who chose these two options might be students or lecturers. Students and lecturers often uses cloud computing as an extra backup or to download free software's, notes, exercises and past-year questions for education purposes. Thus, most of them have the mind-set that cloud computing is all about storing files only. Some colleges or universities even have school portals with cloud computing technologies to allow students and lecturers to upload or download shared files. One example of such a website is Intionline. Other than that, around 10% voters agreed that cloud computing can help students to manage files easily. This is because managing files is only a minor function of cloud computing and less people use cloud computing to manage their files. Thus, not many voters agree to that statement. Lastly, there is also a minority of voters, around 10% of total number of people voted that cloud computing can execute all of the above mentioned functions to help students. Since this blog not only targets teenagers but also the general public, different age of group might have different opinions on the same topic.


Finally, we appreciate and would like to thank all of you who participated in the last poll. We sincerely hope that you will continue to participate in our future polls. For those who did not participate in the previous poll, what would you have chose? Was it what the majority chose, or the minority?