Exploratory Data Analysis
Read before class on Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Readings
- The syllabus for this class
- ModernDive Chapters 1 and 2
- Study: Charts change hearts and minds better than words do
Questions to reflect on
Early Careers 2022 Student Survey contains data from the anonymous online survey of Early Career students. How would we describe the shape, centre, and spread of the following variables:
height, a respondent’s height in cmexercise_hours, number of hours exercising last weekonline_hours, number of hours spent online last weekhandedness, an indicator from -1 (exclusively left handed) to 0 (ambidextrous) to +1 (exclusively right handed)haircut_spend, amount of money spent on last haircut, expressed in USD$.
Session Files
- Slides for today’s session are available on Canvas.
- You can download all session files (data, code, etc.) by pulling from course Github repo.