Closed flannery-denny closed 3 years ago
flannery-denny
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4 years ago I completed turning the two sheets I made on the 2016 elections into pyret starter files and saved them in the DS-1.5-Starter Files folder.
[x] Where should I save the corresponding sheets?
[x] Can we please remove the 2016 primary election file?
schanzer
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4 years ago Corresponding sheets should go in this GDrive folder.
Let's definitely remove that file. Feel free to remove it from the lesson plan and the teacher resources page (see pathways/data-science/resources)
flannery-denny
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3 years ago Crowdscourced suggestions:
New American Economy also has much of interest: https://research.newamericaneconomy.org/
Real Clear Politics keeps track of polls for senate and house races and the presidential race. They have all the polls organized in the chronological order they came out and averages from those polls. Those numbers might be of interest to you.
I’ve got to run but I just wanted to remind you that farming is all about data - collecting it, managing it, predicting outcomes and generally fiddling with numbers in the winter. Our farm is particularly geeky on this subject, where every problem is believed solvable with enough data and a good pivot table and where Dan manages an online persona called Spreadsheet Maniac and teaches courses called Farmer Spreadsheet Academy. So if you want some farm-scale data we should talk this winter to see what might be fun for your students to look at. However, at the broader regional or national scale it would also be interesting to looks at census and demographic data that relates to farmers, agricultural labour, land use, seasonality, growing degree days, pest outbreaks, subsidy payments, crop choices, etc. I’m sure if you start thinking about it you’ll realize that the number of potential datasets with an agricultural flavour is almost endless. And anything that gets young people thinking about farming or environmental issues is better than anything that doesn’t, in my humble opinion. - REID
you could get STD rates by age/location/race/gender, ditto birth control type and failure rate. You could look at US data and also look at income/birth control/# of children in international communities; there is a lot of writing about the connection between access to birth control and income. Data sources might be NHANES datasets or WHO datasets, I believe both are public access and available in various formats.
it’s a pie graph of things that contribute to global warming that i was for some reason looking up. it’s very interesting to ME and i know a lot of my young friends are rlly passionate about being environmentally conscious and stuff like that. maybe this can help u somehow?
I'm a fan of #dataviz on twitter which might turn up some good leads - I just saw this one for a webinar on how to access USAID Data that is later this morning I think
Just generally speaking I think I'd say more sports data for grabbing teenagers' interest. I don't know exactly where to find it but there are probably good climate change datasets available and that's one of the first things that comes to mid for me.
pop music charts. Not sure if that would help exactly but maybe mapping the rise and fall or staying power of different songs.. looking at their similarities/differences.
I was active in supporting women in tech during my college days, helping start one of the largest all-female hackathons in the world! https://gotechnica.org/ It looks like they are starting a bit earlier in October this year and all virtually, but would love if you could shout it out in the future as it supports non-college students as well! :) For the data set, one I think is good and relevant is https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo-search/study/21171 our global temperatures over the years for some additional resources, dig through the source comments for:
this is a link to lots of datasets with globa and national health data, from the university where I work. https://guides.ucsf.edu/pophealthdata/home
I hope these election/voting/political sites help:
election policy follow the money vote smart maplight
airtable anti-racist resources long island traffic stop analysis Favorite social media app How often various age groups post on social media Android or iPhone Extracurricular activities popular with teens Average time spent watching television per night
Rebecca solnit's books about new orleans and san francisco. unfathomable city and infinite city
government bailout for covid - not for profits - artist
flannery-denny
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3 years ago
** see https://github.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday ***
[x] Add Data Set one-pager to Supplemental Materials
[x] Once we've added a few more datasets, remove the least great of the data sets
[x] I'd love to see us build some materials like these for specific data sets that push into thinking we don't get to with animals and not all students and/or teachers? will think of independently
[x] 2016 Presidential Elections by state:
[x] Voter demographics 1986-2018
[x] PERMISSIONS I used columns from sheets for both of these from The United States Election Project. Do you think we need to ask permission as an organization based on the blurb below? If so, should I reach out or would it be better for someone else to?
[ ] Demographics of US Congress or world leaders?
[ ] Look at links at Measure of America
[x] Environmental Justice / Climate Change
[ ] School-to-prison-pipeline / Access to Quality Education
[ ] Immigration : labor force
[ ] Covid-19? / Healthcare / other pandemics?
[x] Nutritional value snacks and beverages (coke, diet coke, orange juice, gatorade, water, coffee, tea, milk, starbucks frappuccino, lacroix, chipotle )
[x] Police Brutality / Stop and Frisk data
[ ] Pop Culture? - I don't feel great about the music and movies and pokemon data sets... and I'm pretty checked out of pop culture... wondering what other more meaningful data sets might be out there?
[ ] Could videogames spreadsheet look more at change over time? Size of development team?
data set compilation list