Author Archives: Noah Fischer

Data Collection (Noah Fischer)

For my data collection I decided to track the amount of steps I take for a week. On the iPhone there is the health app that tracks everything that is related to your health from steps to the amount of flights climbed in a day. Walking is an everyday thing, and I was curious on how many steps I actually take throughout the week. 

If Someone was to look at my data, they can probably assume that I don’t really do crazy amounts of walking during the week, except for a few occasions. They can also jump to a conclusion that I don’t have school two days of the week and during those two days I’m just relaxing and enjoying my day off.

    The three days that probably grabs the person’s attention are Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Friday and Saturday are the lowest because those two days would be the days I don’t have school, and I prefer to stay home, especially in this weather. But Thursday November 7th was the highest because those were one of those days with the occasional “adventure” with my friends after school.

    During the week of tracking my data, I only had three days with more than 10,000 steps. Thursday, November 7th was when I went to the city after class with my friends and totaled about 21,000 steps. The next day that is high in steps was on Monday the 11th where I had around 15,000 steps because once again I also went to the city with my friends. Wednesday was a total of 11,500 steps because I had went to work, the building I work at is about a mile walk there and back from the nearest train station.

I chose to track my steps because growing up I always tried to track my steps with those pedometers. I would always end up cheating and shaking the tracker to make it seem like I walked way more than I actually did, it was just a force of habit that I couldn’t seem to control. But with the technology we have in our phones, we can track more than just our steps in a day, but for the week,the month and the year. It also tracks the amount of miles we walked and how many flights of stairs we have climbed throughout the day. This may seem like small details but they are surprising when you actually take a look and find out information that you weren’t even expecting.

According to the app, I took an average of 11,166 steps in the week of Nov 7-13. I average almost the same amount of steps this week as I did last week, so far this month I’m averaging fewer steps than I did last month by around 650 steps per day and I’m already averaging more steps per day this year than I did last year. Collecting this data was actually very fun and easy, I learned a lot of new things that I didn’t even know. It was so easy to track and access this data that I will still continue to keep track of the data to see if there are any big changes in my routine.

Analysis of an Ad-Noah Fischer

The speaker in this ad is a company that helps you order food online from restaurants, takeout places and fast food and have it delivered to your house, the company is called seamless. The company tries to present themselves by using a comedic phrase and an image of the Statue Of Liberty with a slice of pizza to catch the reader’s attention and to let the readers know that they are a company that is related to food. They want the audience to see them as away to eat different types of food without even having to leave the house. I know this because in the phrase it mentioned that Chicago style pizzas were ordered a great amount of times in the state of New York.

The ad is trying to convey the message that seamless is an easy way to order food of any style. When you’re at home and in a comfortable position, no-one wants to have to get up and get a menu to order food or even get up to go out and pick up the food. Since seamless is an online service, you can easily order from your phone, without having to get up.

The ad’s assumption mainly relies on whether or not the person likes to eat out a lot or has access to the internet. Seamless is used to order food from restaurants and take out . A person that likes to eat cooked meals wouldn’t really find it as useful as a person who enjoys eating out would. Seamless is keeping up with modern technology, since most people use their phones all the time, seamless is more convenient for people. The intended people this ad was made for was everyone. Seamless wants everyone to start using their services for food since they are in competition with other online food services.

There are many ads for seamless that also even offer coupons or special deals. This ad in particular I found so appealing because New York is so diverse. In New York you can go down the block and find a Chinese spot next to a Turkish restaurant. So when the ad said “The Neighborhood with an identity crisis” I instantly thought to myself saying “That is such a New York thing”. The ad used ethos with the little picture of the State Of Liberty holding a slice of pizza, then it uses pathos when saying “The Neighborhood with an identity crisis “ because everyone that lives in New York knows how greatly diverse the food choices are. The ad uses logos with the follow up words “Based on the number of Chicago style pizzas ordered, come on this is New York” these words are used as evidence to show that New York is eating a different food style that is from Chicago.

I found this article funny and relatable but not effective. There’s many ways to order food and delivery that we have been using for the longest. There are other competitors who have more things to offer and are just more well known, Some of those other competitors are sponsored by take out places. It’s 2019 about to be 2020, most of these restaurants are all contactable by calling, there’s no real advantage to using an online service app. There’s probably less problems just calling your order in. At the end of the day, as long as I get my food I’m happy.