I have been assigned to provide peer feedback to your report. At the very first glimpse, one could notice the incredible attention to detail put forth by the team in maintaining the consistency of colour, text and theme of graphs as well as making the entire report aesthetically pleasing. I personally really enjoy dark mode content as it is easier to read at night and I would say that the colours used throughout the report and in graphs are dark mode friendly.
The research questions selected were quite interesting and the amount of external research done was impressive.
With the establishment of the International Space Station and a growing array of opportunities in space exploration, one would expect more new astronauts embarking on space missions. However, Figure 3 illustrates that the amount of new astronauts embarking in space missions does not reflect the progressive increase in space mission durations as observed in Figure 2. This trend highlights the lead time required to train an astronaut through a basic and mission-specific training syllabus. On average, the induction program to be a fully qualified astronaut takes approximately 2 - 4 years, usually contingent on the astronaut’s military status (Council and others (2011)). Some research even suggested that the time commitment and additional skill sets of astronauts as analogous, despite the difference in the technical nature of training for these professionals (Ball et al. (2008)).
I really liked this particular paragraph as it reveals extra details about the field of space exploration that may not have been a part of the project and doesn't seem to be present in the original dataset.
I also enjoyed reading about the part with the cold war rivalry and how it affected the space missions and also exploring the role of gender in the said field. You followed a very well thought out pattern throughout your report and the research questions were answered beautifully. Also your conclusions very neatly integrates and covers the 3 broad questions.
The only thing that I would recommend looking into is Figure 12:
Figure 12: The lollipop graph that shows fifteen top astronauts based on mission times and extravehicular activity. (A) Whitson Peggy is the only female astronauts that sit on big nine in longest mission time, (B) Whitson Peggy and William SUnita are the only female astronauts that have more extravehicular activity in top fifteen
I think it's always better to have figures that can be displayed in a single window figures that extend outside the window are harder to look at and it becomes more difficult to compare the variables.
Maybe switching up the axes and setting ncol = 1 would produce a more readable plot, but I am really knit-picking at this point.
Overall, a fantastic report by your team and I will definitely be picking up a lot from this report and probably incorporate some of what I learned in my future reports.
Hey Team Quoll,
I have been assigned to provide peer feedback to your report. At the very first glimpse, one could notice the incredible attention to detail put forth by the team in maintaining the consistency of colour, text and theme of graphs as well as making the entire report aesthetically pleasing. I personally really enjoy dark mode content as it is easier to read at night and I would say that the colours used throughout the report and in graphs are dark mode friendly.
The research questions selected were quite interesting and the amount of external research done was impressive.
I really liked this particular paragraph as it reveals extra details about the field of space exploration that may not have been a part of the project and doesn't seem to be present in the original dataset.
I also enjoyed reading about the part with the cold war rivalry and how it affected the space missions and also exploring the role of gender in the said field. You followed a very well thought out pattern throughout your report and the research questions were answered beautifully. Also your conclusions very neatly integrates and covers the 3 broad questions.
The only thing that I would recommend looking into is Figure 12:
I think it's always better to have figures that can be displayed in a single window figures that extend outside the window are harder to look at and it becomes more difficult to compare the variables.
Maybe switching up the axes and setting ncol = 1 would produce a more readable plot, but I am really knit-picking at this point.
Overall, a fantastic report by your team and I will definitely be picking up a lot from this report and probably incorporate some of what I learned in my future reports.
Cheers, Aryan