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This chapter discusses data analysis and different methods for representing data visually. It provides instructions for students to conduct a survey in their community, collect responses to 3 questions, and represent the data in various visual formats, including two-way frequency tables, histograms or dot plots, and another format of their choice. Students are asked to analyze each data representation, looking for trends, outliers, and ways to draw conclusions about the survey respondents and community.

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Chapter 10 - Data Analysis PDF

This chapter discusses data analysis and different methods for representing data visually. It provides instructions for students to conduct a survey in their community, collect responses to 3 questions, and represent the data in various visual formats, including two-way frequency tables, histograms or dot plots, and another format of their choice. Students are asked to analyze each data representation, looking for trends, outliers, and ways to draw conclusions about the survey respondents and community.

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Chapter 10: Data Analysis

Data Collection

We rely on surveys and data collection in order


to learn about the people and the world around
us. Every 10 years, the US government conducts
a census to track the population growth of the
country as well as where people live.
Psychologists perform surveys to learn about
human behavior. Companies hire data analysts to
interpret industry data and suggest beneficial
changes within the company’s model. In this
activity, you will play the role of a data collector
by conducting a survey within your community,
then use your knowledge of statistical analysis to
draw reasonable conclusions.

In order to carry out your survey, you must first generate 3 questions to ask your survey
respondents. What are you curious to find out about the people around you?

Once you have developed your questions, survey at least 20 people for answers to each. Then
create visual representations of your results using the methods indicated in the question
requirements. Be sure to include titles on your models, as well as axis labels and keys where
appropriate.

Question requirements:

 One question must be suitable for the creation of a two-way frequency table
o This question should include two possible responses
o Be sure to consider how you will categorize participants into two groups when
analyzing the data
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 One question must be suitable for the creation of either a dot plot or a histogram
o This question will likely be more open ended and ask for responses along a
spectrum
 The third question can be of any nature (you will have to decide which type of data
representation is most optimal – possible options: bar graph, pie chart, box-and-whisker
plot, stem plot, dot plot, histogram, scatter plot, etc…)

Two-Way Frequency Table Analysis

1) Take a close look at the table you created. Label the joint and marginal frequencies. What
initial observations do you have? What (if anything) does the data in this form seem to suggest?

2) Use the same data to convert your two-way frequency table into a two-way relative
frequency table. What observations do you have? Does this table appear to suggest the same
conclusion, or something entirely different (and if so, why might this be)?

3) Use your first table to set up conditional relative frequencies for both the rows and the
columns. What do these two representations suggest about the data? Can you observe any
possible associations among the data? Why might these conditional relative frequencies be
more indicative of associations than the graphs you analyzed in the first two questions?
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Histogram/Dot-Plot Analysis

1) How would you describe the distribution of the data? Does it appear symmetric, normal,
bimodal, skewed (left/right), or something else entirely?

2) Can you see any notable outliers in the data? How do these affect the data distribution?

3) Use your graph to estimate the mean and median of the data. Based on your answers to
questions one and two, which do you think is a better approximation for the average of the
data (and why)?

4) Can you draw any reasonable conclusions from the data? What might the graph suggest
about the people you surveyed and the community at large?
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Question 3 Analysis

1) What factors influenced your decision when choosing a specific type of model to represent
your data? How did you reach a conclusion?

2) What conclusions can you draw from the data? Are there any notable trends?

Learn More
https://mathbitsnotebook.com/Algebra1/StatisticsData/SToutline.html (click on the various
links to learn more about the individual topics)

Image URLs
https://towardsdatascience.com/essential-statistics-for-data-science-ml-4595ff07a1fa
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