FYI: http://www.take-a-screenshot.org/
OR BETTER WOULD BE TO TYPE "snip" in circle icon on taskbar; click new and drag the part of the screen you wish to copy (and then copy and paste it into your doc)
MISC STARTING POINTS FOR STATISTICAL DATA:
NY Times: What's Going on with this Graph
Spurious Correlations examples - mostly a comic site about the dangers of easy stat analysis
Twitter folks who do this for a living: 1) Conrad Hackett, 2) USA Facts, 3) Nathan Yau, 4) NY Times Graphics, 5) Beautiful Maps
1a) Open the 5 PDFs in the main folder of Google Drive dated 2014-10-28 & read them. TAKE SCREENSHOTS OF ONES YOU WANT TO REFERENCE IN YOUR JOURNAL or for today's task
&
THE STATS/BEAUTIFUL DATA TAB ON THIS WEBSITE (CHECK LINKS AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT PAGE)
& CHECK THE LIKES ON THE SCHSTOK TWITTER PAGE FOR samples of data visualizations
1c) VOLUSIA PUBLIC SALARY DATABASE - 2017 - scroll down to find search last name box
2) Examine http://www.gapminder.org/ or more specifically http://tools.google.com/gapminder (and play with the X and Y axis and which countries you want to explore -- what causal links seem strongest/correlate or are totally unrelated though you expected them to correlate?) (play with linear/log scale too)
May also want to see some of their strongest data correlations in the PDF world charts (http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/handouts/)
Dollar Street website (tied to Gapminder)
or data sets from other sites like:http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ (politics) or http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html (2008 election breakdown) or http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president
2016 election forecast (can click senate tab too)
2016 results
2020 results
http://www.city-data.com/ (city/state demographics), for example: http://www.city-data.com/city/Port-Orange-Florida.html
3) World Happiness Report 2021 - (mostly start at pg 22 of 212) can you trust the methods of quantifying emotions?
maybe consider consider the desire to objectively quantify subjective/emotional data seen with http://www.wefeelfine.org/ [he has a TED video too:http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_harris_tells_the_web_s_secret_stories.html]
4) Should all data be publically available or be compiled by a 3rd party without your official consent? Search yourself or someone else:http://www.spokeo.com/should this be public?
or voter records (search your parents): https://voterrecords.com/voters/
registered sex offenders map search - why should this be public?:
5) what about these stats (and how much should they be valued when making investment decisions):http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/
6) how to quantify raw data into your fantasy football team @ http://live.advancednflstats.com/live.php
or live win probability on Falcons/Patriots super bowl
or which ways of knowing/maths should be used to arrive at these rankings: http://fantasynews.cbssports.com/fantasyfootball/rankings
or the creation of all these new terms for baseball statistics of value (sabermetrics): http://www.fangraphs.com/library/
ALSO
Watch more Hans Rosling TED talks here
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/peter_donnelly_shows_how_stats_fool_juries.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/al_gore_warns_on_latest_climate_trends.html - examine how stats are used to make a social or political or scientific argument
OR BETTER WOULD BE TO TYPE "snip" in circle icon on taskbar; click new and drag the part of the screen you wish to copy (and then copy and paste it into your doc)
MISC STARTING POINTS FOR STATISTICAL DATA:
NY Times: What's Going on with this Graph
Spurious Correlations examples - mostly a comic site about the dangers of easy stat analysis
Twitter folks who do this for a living: 1) Conrad Hackett, 2) USA Facts, 3) Nathan Yau, 4) NY Times Graphics, 5) Beautiful Maps
1a) Open the 5 PDFs in the main folder of Google Drive dated 2014-10-28 & read them. TAKE SCREENSHOTS OF ONES YOU WANT TO REFERENCE IN YOUR JOURNAL or for today's task
&
THE STATS/BEAUTIFUL DATA TAB ON THIS WEBSITE (CHECK LINKS AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT PAGE)
& CHECK THE LIKES ON THE SCHSTOK TWITTER PAGE FOR samples of data visualizations
1c) VOLUSIA PUBLIC SALARY DATABASE - 2017 - scroll down to find search last name box
2) Examine http://www.gapminder.org/ or more specifically http://tools.google.com/gapminder (and play with the X and Y axis and which countries you want to explore -- what causal links seem strongest/correlate or are totally unrelated though you expected them to correlate?) (play with linear/log scale too)
May also want to see some of their strongest data correlations in the PDF world charts (http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/handouts/)
Dollar Street website (tied to Gapminder)
or data sets from other sites like:http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/ (politics) or http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html (2008 election breakdown) or http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president
2016 election forecast (can click senate tab too)
2016 results
2020 results
http://www.city-data.com/ (city/state demographics), for example: http://www.city-data.com/city/Port-Orange-Florida.html
3) World Happiness Report 2021 - (mostly start at pg 22 of 212) can you trust the methods of quantifying emotions?
maybe consider consider the desire to objectively quantify subjective/emotional data seen with http://www.wefeelfine.org/ [he has a TED video too:http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_harris_tells_the_web_s_secret_stories.html]
4) Should all data be publically available or be compiled by a 3rd party without your official consent? Search yourself or someone else:http://www.spokeo.com/should this be public?
or voter records (search your parents): https://voterrecords.com/voters/
registered sex offenders map search - why should this be public?:
5) what about these stats (and how much should they be valued when making investment decisions):http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/
6) how to quantify raw data into your fantasy football team @ http://live.advancednflstats.com/live.php
or live win probability on Falcons/Patriots super bowl
or which ways of knowing/maths should be used to arrive at these rankings: http://fantasynews.cbssports.com/fantasyfootball/rankings
or the creation of all these new terms for baseball statistics of value (sabermetrics): http://www.fangraphs.com/library/
ALSO
Watch more Hans Rosling TED talks here
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/peter_donnelly_shows_how_stats_fool_juries.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/al_gore_warns_on_latest_climate_trends.html - examine how stats are used to make a social or political or scientific argument