Sunday, August 23, 2009

StatCrunch this week

Assignment 1:

  • Go to My Groups
  • Click on RCHS group
  • Click on the First Day of school data
  • Make a graph of one or more variables on the survey
  • Describe
  • Print graph and description
Assignment 2:
  • Find some data. Lots of it.
  • You have to find data that contains both categorical and quantitative variables on the individuals.
  • Go to My Data
  • On the left, you'll see some options, choose the one that works.
  • Make sure to Share with our group:
  • If you are viewing the data in the StatCrunch, click Edit and then you can share.

  • There is a cool new option that will grab data from a website
  • Go to http://www.statcrunch.com/bookmarklet
  • Go to that page and read about adding a bookmark called "StatcrunchThis".
  • Then go to the website you want to grab.
  • Click the bookmark
  • Save and data and share it.
Make sure you have described your data so that everyone knows what all the variables mean.
You may do Assignment #2 with a partner IF both of you have joined the AP Stats group.
After you have done assignment #2, email me with your names, your names in StatCrunch and the name of your data set.

Assignment #1 will be checked in class on Friday.
Assignment #2 must be done by 8pm on Thursday night. Anyone who does not receive a reply email from me by 9pm on Thursday night will be considered late.

Find an interesting data set about something you care about!!!