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	221
	2	Lesson 2: What is an Experiment?		Experiments, causation	224
	3	Lesson 3: Let’s Try an Experiment!		Random assignments, confounding factors	227
	4	Lesson 4: Predictions, Predictions		Visualizations, predictions	229
	5	Lesson 5: Time Perception Experiment		Elements of an experiment	231
	6	Lab 3A: The results are in!		Analyzing experiment data	233
	7	Practicum: Music to my Ears		Design an experiment	234
Would You Look at That? (4 days)	8	Lesson 6: Observational Studies		Observational study	237
	9	Lesson 7: Observational Studies vs. Experiments		Observational study, experiment	239
	10	Lesson 8: Monsters that Hide in Observational Studies		Observational study, confounding factors	241
	11	Lab 3B: Confound it all!		Confounding factors	245
Are You Asking Me? (9 days)	12	Lesson 9: Survey Says…		Survey	249
	13	Lesson 10: We’re So Random		Data collection, random samples	252
	14	Lesson 11: The Gettysburg Address		Sampling bias	256
	15	Lab 3C: Random Sampling		Random sampling	261
	16	Lesson 12: Bias in Survey Sampling		Bias, sampling methods	263
	16	Lesson 13: The Confidence Game		Confidence intervals	266
	17	Lesson 14: How Confident Are You?		Confidence intervals, margin of error	269
	18	Lab 3D: Are You Sure about That?		Bootstrapping	271
	19	Practicum: Let’s Build a Survey!		Non-biased survey design	274
What’s the Trigger? (5 days)	20	Lesson 15 Ready, Sense, Go!		Sensors, data collection	277
	21	Lesson 16: Does it have a Trigger?		Survey questions, sensor questions	280
	22	Lesson 17: Creating Our Own Participatory Sensing Campaign		Participatory sensing campaign creation	283
	23	Lesson 18: Evaluating Our Own Participatory Sensing Campaign		Statistical questions, evaluate campaign	286
	24^	Lesson 19: Implementing Our Own Participatory Sensing Campaign	Class Campaign—data	Mock-implement campaign, campaign creation, data collection	288
Webpages (6 days)	29	Lesson 20: Online Data-ing	Class Campaign—data	Data on the internet	292
	30	Lab 3E: Scraping web data	Class Campaign—data	Scraping data from the internet	296
	31	Lab 3F: Maps	Class Campaign—data	Making maps with data from the internet	299
	32	Lesson 21: Learning to Love XML	Class Campaign—data	Data storage, XML	301
	33+	Lesson 22: Changing Orientation	Class Campaign—data	Converting XML files	303
	34	Practicum: What Does Our Campaign Data Say?	Class Campaign	Statistical questions, visualizations, numerical summaries	305
End of Unit Project (5 days)	35- 40	End of Unit Project: TB or Not TB	Class Campaign	Simulation using experiment data	306

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