Lecture 9: Data collection day!

Lecture 9: Data collection day!#

STATS 60 / STATS 160 / PSYCH 10

Announcements:

  • Next week, guest lectures:

    • Monday: Will Hartog on the use of probability in sports

    • Wednesday: Dennis Sun on the basics of data visualization

    • Thursday section: use AI to program data visualizations

    • Friday: Dennis Sun on means and medians

Preparing for exploratory data analysis unit#

In the forthcoming exploratory data analysis unit, we will build on our theoretical foundations and start to work with some real data.

Today’s goal: collect some data!

We’ll collectively design an (anonymous) survey, and then take some time to fill it out.

Then we will learn analysis techniques that will help us explore and draw conclusions from the data we collected today.

I’ve made a start here.

Setting the stage#

My requirements:

  • Be wary of privacy and anonymity.

  • Keep it kind!

What is our vision for this survey?

  • What different types of data could we collect?

  • Do we want one (or several) themes?

  • Are there opinions you’re interested in polling?

    • What is more interesting: 50/50 opinions, or opinions with a small minority?

Survey design time#

  1. Break up into groups of 3-5.

  2. Take 15 minutes to design 1 or 2 questions. Once we are all done, we’ll take the survey (it is anonymous).

  3. Add them to the Google form:

Taking the survey#

Take the course data collection survey here:

Take an (optional, anonymous) survey about your experience in STATS60 so far here:

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