Introduction to Data Science Daily Overview: Unit 2

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	117
	2	Lesson 2: What Does Mean Mean?	Personality Color	Measures of center – mean	120
	3	Lesson 3: Median In the Middle	Personality Color	Measures of center – median	124
	4	Lesson 4: How Far Is It from Typical?	Personality Color	Measures of spread – MAD	128
	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	Statistical questions, comparing distributions	146
How Likely Is It? (7 days)	11	Lesson 8: How Likely is It?		Probability, simulations	150
	12	Lesson 9: Bias Detective		Simulations to detect bias	153
	13	Lesson 10: Marbles, Marbles		Probability, with replacement	157
	14	Lab 2C: Which Song Plays Next?		Probability of simple events, do loops, set.seed()	159
	15	Lesson 11: This AND/OR That		Compound probabilities	162
	16	Lab 2D: Queue It Up!		Probability with & without replacement, sample()	166
	17	Practicum: Win, Win, Win		Probability estimation through repeated simulations	169
Are You Stressing or Chilling? (8 Days)	18	Lesson 12: Don’t Take My Stress Away	Stress/Chill – data	Introduction to campaign	172
	19	Lesson 13: The Horror Movie Shuffle	Stress/Chill – data	Chance differences – cat var	176
	20	Lab 2E: The Horror Movie Shuffle	Stress/Chill – data	Inference for categorical variable, do loops, shuffle()	180
	21	Lesson 14: The Titanic Shuffle	Stress/Chill – data	Chance differences – num var	183
	22	Lab 2F: The Titanic Shuffle	Stress/Chill – data	Inference for numerical variable, do loops, shuffle()	187
	23	Lesson 15: Tangible Data Merging	Stress/Chill – data	Merging data sets	189
	24	Lab 2G: Getting It Together	Stress/Chill & Personality Color	Merging data sets, stacking vs. joining	192
	25	Practicum: What Stresses Us?	Stress/Chill & Personality Color	Answering statistical questions of merged data	194
What’s Normal? (5 Days)	26	Lesson 16: What Is Normal?		Introduction to normal curve	197
	27	Lesson 17: Normal Measure of Spread		Measures of spread - SD	201
	28	Lesson 18: What’s Your Z-Score?		z-scores, shuffling	204
	29	Lab 2H: Eyeballing Normal		Normal curves overlaid on distributions & simulated data	220
	30	Lab 2I: R’s Normal Distribution Alphabet		Normal probability, rnorm(), pnorm(), quantiles, qnorm()	212
Unit 2 Project (5 Days)	31-35	End of Unit Project and OralPresentations: Asking and AnsweringStatistical Questions of Our Own Data	Stress/Chill, Personality Color, Food Habits, or Time Use	Synthesis of above	214

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