...over Excel.
I discovered that DBP has a corpus of Malay words (yay!), and researchers (e.g. me), or even members of the public, can access it (double yay!).
After several trials and errors, I sort of got hang of the process, and got some important output from the corpus. Thing is, if I wanted to transfer the output to a Word document and check it manually, it would be thousands of pages long. with almost 30,000 words to look over. So I tried to analyse them on Excel, instead.
Now, the last time I properly used Excel, with formulas and all, was 10 years ago. I know that as long as you can think 'logically' and 'mathematically', you'll be able to churn out formulas as fast as David Teo churning out films.
But 10 years ago I was playing with numbers and wave, and now I'm faced with texts. I'm stuck, I just can't figure out any applicable formula for the data that I have and I need. It is trial and error all over again, and my worry is that Excel just don't have the functions that I need :( .
All these thinking make me hungry...
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Recruitment form done!
One thing to cross out from my to-do list, yay! Am going to reward myself with a shower, a lather of my newly-bought vanilla & apple body butter, and Xpress Noodles noodles :D :D :D.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
14-month plan
Was asked to construct a 14-month plan, October 2011 - December 2012. Looking at it, December 2012 does not seem so far away anymore (which can be both good and bad heheh...). Finished that and also the annual review form. A little bit more work on the ethics thingy - consent forms, recruitment forms, etc.. But first, a trip to town because it is SO sunny and I need to get a few supplies. And perhaps reward myself with a couple of fried chicken pieces; three meals of fish fingers in 4 days is more than enough even for a (lazy) student like me.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Bismillah...
My first entry.
Have been alternately staring at the monitor and the papers in front of me for 3 hours. And all I managed to (academically) write are four sentences.
Time to make fish finger sandwich!
Have been alternately staring at the monitor and the papers in front of me for 3 hours. And all I managed to (academically) write are four sentences.
Time to make fish finger sandwich!
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