Week 2
Health Data & The Quantified Self
September 8-10
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Programming Concepts and Learning Outcomes:
Vector Indexation
Main Plots
Basic Statistics
Tuesday Class Section
Tuesday Class Section
Health Data & The Quantified Self
Topics:
Data Collection
Survey Design Principles
Due Today:
🔢 Behind the Number Presentation (BMI)
Link to folder: "Behind The Number Presentation"
📚“Raw data” introduction Reading Due
Link: "Raw Data"
📚"Calling Bullshit" Preface and Chap 3 Reading Due
Link: "Calling Bullshit" (Link to pdf in case e-copy is in use)
Thursday Class Section
Thursday Class Section
Health Data & The Quantified Self
Topics:
Sampling & Other Biases
The Quantified Self
Quick return to last week's plot:
Link to handout: BrunswickAgeDataGraphActivity; Key
Distribution of Data
Link to code: Week2Code
Link to data: AbsenceRates.csv
Due Today:
🔢10,000 steps Presentation
🔔Next Week:
Intelligence Quotient (IQ) Presentation
Link to folder: "Behind The Number Presentations"
Datafication Reading due
Dear Data postcard (1) due
SAT Scores Presentation
Link to folder: "Behind The Number Presentations"
TUESDAY SEP 15
THURSDAY SEP 17
📚To read before next Tuesday:
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier (pictured at right). "Datafication." In Big Data (Mariner Books, 2013), pp. 73-97.
Link: "Datafication"
Link: "Quick reading guide"
Questions for you:
what is "good" data?
what shouldn't be datafied?
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