CODAP

Getting Started Tutorial

Basic Demo Video: YouTube
(Note: The first 20 minutes uses the Birthday data that comes with CODAP.
Heart Disease Data exploration starts at the 20-minute mark.
Read the following instructions before watching the video.)


Dataset: UCI’s Heart Disease Dataset: http://bit.ly/2ks9okc

You can download the heart disease data from the above bitly link to practice using CODAP.

For more information about the dataset, go to: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Heart+Disease

NOTE: The data in the above bitly link is a cleaned version of the data down-loaded from Kaggle at https://www.kaggle.com/ronitf/heart-disease-uci.

1. Create a folder on your computer for this project. Download your dataset into this folder, if you have not already done so. If you are learning to use CODAP, you can practice using the heart disease data, otherwise download your project data.


2. Go to https://codap.concord.org/


3. Click on the Launch CODAP button in the top tool bar (or Try CODAP link from a little below in the page).


4. In the pop-up box that says “WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO?” click on CREATE NEW DOCUMENT.

(NOTE: DO NOT click on “Open Document or Browse Examples” if you want to load your data. ).


5. In the top left pull down menu, select Import….

(NOTE: DO NOT select “Open”)


6. In the “IMPORT DATA” pop-up box that opens up, click where it says Drop file here or click here to select a file.


7. Navigate to the folder where your data (heart-disease.csv or your project data) is and open it.

8. CODAP may take a few seconds to load the data – be patient!

9. You can now follow along the recorded CODAP Basic Demo video to visualize the data through creating graphs.


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