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	216
	2	Lesson 2: What is an Experiment?		Experiments, causation	219
	3	Lesson 3: Let’s Try an Experiment!		Random assignments, confounding factors	222
	4	Lesson 4: Predictions, Predictions		Visualizations, predictions	224
	5	Lesson 5: Time Perception Experiment		Elements of an experiment	226
	6	Lab 3A: The results are in!		Analyzing experiment data	228
	7	Practicum: TB or Not TB	Time Perception	Simulation using experiment data	229
Would You Look at That? (4 days)	8	Lesson 6: Observational Studies		Observational study	233
	9	Lesson 7: Observational Studies vs. Experiments		Observational study, experiment	235
	10	Lesson 8: Monsters that Hide in Observational Studies		Observational study, confounding factors	237
	11	Lab 3B: Confound It All!		Confounding factors	241
Are You Asking Me? (9 days)	12	Lesson 9: Survey Says…		Survey	244
	13	Lesson 10: We’re So Random		Data collection, random samples	247
	14	Lesson 11: The Gettysburg Address		Sampling bias	251
	15	Lab 3C: Random Sampling		Random sampling	256
	16	Lesson 12: Bias in Survey Sampling		Bias in survey sampling	258
	17	Lesson 13: The Confidence Game		Confidence intervals	261
	18	Lesson 14: How Confident Are You?		Confidence intervals, margin of error	264
	19	Lab 3D: Are You Sure about That?		Bootstrapping	266
	20	Practicum: Let’s Build a Survey!		Survey design with non-leading questions	269
What’s the Trigger? (5 days)	21	Lesson 15 Ready, Sense, Go!		Sensors, data collection	271
	22	Lesson 16: Does it have a Trigger?		Survey questions, sensor questions	274
	23	Lesson 17: Creating Our Own Participatory Sensing Campaign		Participatory Sensing campaign creation	276
	24	Lesson 18: Evaluating Our Own Participatory Sensing Campaign		Statistical questions, evaluate campaign	279
	25^	Lesson 19: Implementing Our Own Participatory Sensing Campaign	Class Campaign—data	Mock-implement campaign, campaign creation, data collection	281
Webpages (5 days)	26	Lesson 20: Online Data-ing	Class Campaign—data	Data on the internet	284
	27	Lab 3E: Scraping Web Data	Class Campaign—data	Scraping data from the internet	287
	28	Lab 3F: Maps	Class Campaign—data	Making maps with data from the internet	289
	29	Lesson 21: Learning to Love XML	Class Campaign—data	Data storage, XML	291
	30+	Lesson 22: Changing Format	Class Campaign—data	Converting XML files	296
End of Unit Project (5 days)	31- 36	End of Unit 3 Project: Analyzing Our Own Campaign Data	Class Campaign	Statistical questions, analyzing our data	299

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