| Date | Class: Monday, 11:50 to 1:30 |
Homework |
Class: Thursday 11:50 to 1:30 |
Homework |
| Jan --, 20 |
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Introductions. Blackboard. More women murdered on the job. (percentages,
'what else?', context) |
Enroll in Blackboard. Start postings. |
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| Jan, 24, 27 |
Friendly Fire
rates. (models) |
Postings |
Unit pricing. Spreadsheets and graphing (computer demo/computer lab) | Postings |
| Jan 31, Feb 3 |
Everyone to take the PSAT. (measures of centrality) | Postings. Find reports on test scores. |
Educational High Stake testing (measures of centrality, continued) | Postings |
| Feb 7, 10 |
Was the Lottery better when run by the Mob? (fair bets, expected value) | Find reports on lottery. Postings. |
Analyzing games (chance, memory, logic, mixture) |
Postings. |
| Feb 14, 17 |
Smoking risks. Hormone Replacement Therapy (correlations, odds, probabilities, Communicating risk. ) | Prepare diagrams, charts, graphic. Postings |
Everyone
dies. Dying young[er] versus bad breath. Car versus airplane accidents.
(Immediate risk. Cumulative risk. Reported incidences.) |
Postings |
| Feb 21, 24 |
Catch-up talks. (Original lecture postponed to
after Spring recess.) |
Access census data. Postings. |
Catch-up talks. Testing. Large number of False positives. |
Access district maps, news stories. Postings. |
| Feb 28, Mar 3 |
Electoral
vote maps. Re-districting. Minority districts. Pre-Election Predictions. (margin of error, confidence value, p=.05, p=.01) |
Postings. |
Exit polls
(models of population, sample coverage) |
Review on-line guide. Post topic for Project I. |
| Mar 7, 10 |
Review for midterm. |
Study for midterm |
MIDTERM |
Work on Project I (report and presentation) |
| Mar 14, 17 |
Go over midterm How to keep digital photos? (representations, standards) |
work on project, postings |
Computer lab for Excel. Maintain weight. Results from midterm. | Work on Project I (report and presentation) |
| Mar |
SPRING RECESS |
Postings. |
SPRING RECESS |
Postings. |
| Mar 28, 31 |
Guessing on tests. Out-of-wedlock babies. (accessing
Census data). Jury selection. |
Complete Project I. |
Present Project I. |
Postings |
| Apr 4, 7 |
Present
Project I. |
Postings |
Superintendent's
Pay. Cost of programs. (net present value. Time value of money.
Return on investment). |
Postings. |
| Apr 11, 14 |
CLASS
CANCELLED |
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Saving Social Security. (taxes, insurance, investment options, life expectancy). Stocks. Bonds. Index funds. | Go on-line, find and do retirement exercise for yourself and/or parents. Make a posting on the experience. DO NOT INCLUDE FINANCIAL DETAILS. |
| Apr 18, 21 |
Sports records--keep being set? Significant digits. Asymptotic trends. | Postings. | Pre-Challenger flight data. Tufte: on dimensions. Napoleon's march. Bad/fake bar charts. Connecticut driving law. | Post topic for Project II. Extra credit: Go to Tufte site and post report on 1 (unique) topic. Extra credit: Get question on Ask Tufte site. |
| Apr 25, 28 |
The 'crow
flies' versus 'streets and avenues'.
How much does speeding benefit? How big is Greenland? How long is the coast line? (Map projections. Fractal dimension.) |
Find alternative types of map projections.
Postings. |
Sports records. |
Complete Project II (written and oral) |
| May 2, 5 |
Review for final. Very short presentations. |
Prepare for final. |
FINAL: noon to
2:30 |
Take post-course survey |
| Original Blackboard postings on news stories | 15 |
| Responses to other postings | 10 |
| Spreadsheet and graphing exercises | 10 |
| Project I: story re-write | 10 |
| Midterm | 10 |
| Project II: story re-write or interview report | 15 |
| Class room exercises & diagram homework | 10 |
| Final | 20 |