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Introduction to Data Science Daily Overview: Unit 2

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Unit 2

Daily Overview: Unit 2

Theme Day Lessons and Labs Campaign Topics Page
What Is
Your True
Color?
(10 days)
1^+ Lesson 1: What Is Your True Color? Personality Color - data Subsets, relative frequency 119
2 Lesson 2: What Does Mean Mean? Personality Color Measures of center – mean 122
3 Lesson 3: Median In the Middle Personality Color Measures of center – median 126
4 Lesson 4: How Far Is It from Typical? Personality Color Measures of spread – MAD 129
5 Lab 2A: All About Distributions Personality Color Measures of center & spread – mean, median, MAD 132
6 Lesson 5: Human Boxplots Boxplots, IQR 134
7 Lesson 6: Face Off Comparing distributions 137
8 Lesson 7: Plot Match Comparing distributions 140
9 Lab 2B: Oh, the Summaries… Personality Color Boxplots, IQR, numerical summaries, custom functions 143
10 Practicum: The Summaries Food Habits or Time Use Data cycle, comparing distributions 146
How
Likely Is
It?
(7 days)
11 Lesson 8: How Likely is It? Probability, simulations 149
12 Lesson 9: Dice Detective Simulations to detect unfairness 152
13 Lesson 10: Marbles, Marbles Probability, with replacement 156
14 Lab 2C: Which Song Plays Next? Probability of simple events, do loops, set.seed() 158
15 Lesson 11: This AND/OR That Compound probabilities 161
16 Lab 2D: Queue It Up! Probability with & without replacement, sample() 165
17 Practicum: Win, Win, Win Probability estimation through repeated simulations 168
Are You
Stressing
or
Chilling?
(8 Days)
18^ Lesson 12: Don’t Take My Stress Away Stress/Chill – data Introduction to campaign 171
19 Lesson 13: The Horror Movie Shuffle Stress/Chill – data Chance differences – categorical variables 175
20 Lab 2E: The Horror Movie Shuffle Stress/Chill – data Inference for categorical variable, do loops, shuffle() 179
21 Lesson 14: The Titanic Shuffle Stress/Chill – data Chance differences – numerical variables 182
22 Lab 2F: The Titanic Shuffle Stress/Chill – data Inference for numerical variable, do loops, shuffle() 186
23+ Lesson 15: Tangible Data Merging Stress/Chill – data Merging datasets 188
24 Lab 2G: Getting It Together Stress/Chill & Personality Color Merging datasets, stacking vs. joining 192
25 Practicum: What Stresses Us? Stress/Chill & Personality Color Analyzing merged data 192
What’s
Normal?
(5 Days)
26 Lesson 16: What Is Normal? Introduction to normal curve 194
27 Lesson 17: Normal Measure of Spread Measures of spread - SD 197
28 Lesson 18: What’s Your Z-Score? z-scores, shuffling 200
29 Lab 2H: Eyeballing Normal Normal curves overlaid on distributions & simulated data 204
30 Lab 2I: R’s Normal Distribution Alphabet Normal probability, rnorm(), pnorm(), quantiles, qnorm() 206
Unit 2
Project
(5 Days)
31-35 End of Unit Project and Presentations: Asking and Answering Statistical Investigative Questions of Our Data Stress/Chill, Personality Color, Food Habits, or Time Use Synthesis of above 208

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