Introduction to Data Science Daily Overview: Unit 3

Unit 3

Daily Overview: Unit 3

Theme	Day	Lessons and Labs	Campaign	Topics	Page
Testing, Testing… 1, 2, 3… (7 days)	1	Lesson 1: Anecdotes vs. Data		Reading articles critically, data	215
	2	Lesson 2: What is an Experiment?		Experiments, causation	218
	3	Lesson 3: Let’s Try an Experiment!		Random assignments, confounding factors	221
	4	Lesson 4: Predictions, Predictions		Visualizations, predictions	223
	5	Lesson 5: Time Perception Experiment		Elements of an experiment	225
	6	Lab 3A: The results are in!		Analyzing experiment data	226
	7	Practicum: Music to my Ears		Design an experiment	227
Would You Look at That? (4 days)	8	Lesson 6: Observational Studies		Observational study	230
	9	Lesson 7: Observational Studies vs. Experiments		Observational study, experiment	232
	10	Lesson 8: Monsters that Hide in Observational Studies		Observational study, confounding factors	234
	11	Lab 3B: Confound It All!		Confounding factors	238
Are You Asking Me? (9 days)	12	Lesson 9: Survey Says…		Survey	241
	13	Lesson 10: We’re So Random		Data collection, random samples	244
	14	Lesson 11: The Gettysburg Address		Sampling bias	248
	15	Lab 3C: Random Sampling		Random sampling	253
	16	Lesson 12: Bias in Survey Sampling		Bias in survey sampling	255
	16	Lesson 13: The Confidence Game		Confidence intervals	258
	17	Lesson 14: How Confident Are You?		Confidence intervals, margin of error	261
	18	Lab 3D: Are You Sure about That?		Bootstrapping	263
	19	Practicum: Let’s Build a Survey!		Survey design with non-leading questions	266
What’s the Trigger? (5 days)	20	Lesson 15 Ready, Sense, Go!		Sensors, data collection	268
	21	Lesson 16: Does it have a Trigger?		Survey questions, sensor questions	271
	22	Lesson 17: Creating Our Own Participatory Sensing Campaign		Participatory Sensing campaign creation	273
	23	Lesson 18: Evaluating Our Own Participatory Sensing Campaign		Statistical investigative questions, evaluate campaign	276
	24^	Lesson 19: Implementing Our Own Participatory Sensing Campaign	Class Campaign—data	Mock-implement campaign, campaign creation, data collection	278
Webpages (6 days)	29	Lesson 20: Online Data-ing	Class Campaign—data	Data on the internet	281
	30	Lab 3E: Scraping Web Data	Class Campaign—data	Scraping data from the internet	284
	31	Lab 3F: Maps	Class Campaign—data	Making maps with data from the internet	286
	32	Lesson 21: Learning to Love XML	Class Campaign—data	Data storage, XML	288
	33+	Lesson 22: Changing Format	Class Campaign—data	Converting XML files	293
	34	Practicum: What Does Our Campaign Data Say?	Class Campaign	Statistical investigative questions, analyzing our data	296
End of Unit Project (5 days)	35- 40	End of Unit Project: TB or Not TB	Class Campaign	Simulation using experiment data	297

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