In this project, students will work with a partner to answer a question of personal interest using a publicly available data set. Students will need to produce data visualizations and explain how these visualizations led to their conclusions. They will develop a computational artifact that illustrates, represents, or explains their findings, communicate their findings to their classmates, and embed their artifact in their personal portfolio website.
Example Activities and Big Idea/Computational Thinking Practice
Present a Data-driven Insight: Students consider how the amount of collected data impacts our lives in ways that require considerable study and reflection for us to fully understand them. Students explore a question that can be answered by analyzing a data set. They form a question and use visualization techniques to analyze the data to answer the question.
[Big Idea DAT][Computational Thinking Practice 6]