ANNOUNCEMENTS & ASSIGNMENTS:
EXAM Two Weeks Away: Nov 5th!: Be on time or lose points.
When handing in re-graded homework: (you may only do this during the week after the assignment is returned), hand in the ALREADY GRADED work along with the new fixed-up version.
Preview of
Lab Next Two Weeks:
This week:
Excel Lab 2
with scatter plot and population pyramid graphs see
Lab 6 Facsimile
Example
Next Week:
Build your Web Page
Reading: Keyboards, How roller mice work, How roller and optical mice work, How touch pads work, How active-matrix screens work. Text Sections 11-13 (pages 64-87), TED Talk by Tim Berners Lee (inventor of the Web).
Websites of the Week: Alternative News Sites How to Evaluate Web Site Credibility What Peer Review Means, Hans Rosling's TED talk, and Gapminder.org software site
LECTURE:
Tufte Books
Review Graph Practice Two
Demographic Transitions: One, Two
Descriptive Statistics: Handout
Mean: the numerical average, used with quantitative data.
Mode: the most often observed value, used with qualitative as well as quantitative data.
Median: The mid-point or middle, used with quantitative continuous data.
Variation: Often more important than the Mean and shown in: Histogram,
Inter-quartile range, Box & Whiskers plot, Variance,
& Standard Deviation.
Graph Practice Three
