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If we were to redo the Johnson Noise experiment, it would be helpful to vary the temperature and to vary the $R_{in}$ and instead of varying bandwidth $\Delta f$, we could vary resistance $R$. This would just be another way to measure a slope of $k_B$. I believe doing this experiment more times with different variations would provide a more accurate spread of data.  We were able to find the charge of electron to be: $1.649 \pm 0.007 \cdot 10^{-19} \textrm{ Coulombs}$. This is less than $2.4 \%$ different from the accepted value of the charge of an electron: $1.60217662 \cdot 10^{ -19} \textrm{ coulombs}$. If we were to redo the Shot Noise experiment, the only thing that we would change would be to take down error measurement for each data point in order to have much better error results. As it is now, we do not have a great idea on the error in our apparatus as we neglected to take any error  data. Accepted values from: \href{http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?e}{NIST value with uncertainty}.