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Required Readings

Title Author Journal Year Quiz
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: An Empirical Assessment of Quantitative Colormaps Yang Liu & Jeffrey Heer Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings 2018 09/01
Science and Statistics George Box Journal of the American Statistical Association 1976 Oct 1st


Midterm

Midterm Instructions

Step Due Date
Data Selection/Project Proposal October 6th
Data Check In October 20th
Presentations November 5th

Exam

It’ll be the full 80 minutes. You may bring a notecard and a calculator. If you do not have a calculator you may leave your answer unsimplified. Eg predicted price = $ e^2.19.

Exam Study Guide Date
Exam 1 Study Guide Sept 22nd
Exam 2 - TBD
Final - December 5th at 1pm


Syllabus

Welcome to the course website for Math 104! To begin, you can find the course syllabus linked below:

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Schedule


Week 1

Date Lecture Lab Suggested Reading
Aug 18 Basics of Statistics + 5 number summary
Aug 20 5 Num. Summary, Boxplots, and Histograms

Week 2

Date Lecture HW Due Suggested Reading
Aug 25 Histograms and Numeric Summaries HW 1 due 08/28 at 4:00pm at my office door (a drop off box/folder will be made for it) HW 1 solutions
Aug 27 Scatterplots and Correlation Histogram Practice Worksheet Histogram Practice Solutons

Week 3

Date Lecture HW Due Suggested Reading
Sept 1 Finish Correlation and then bar plots HW 2 due 09/05 at 4:00pm at my office door (a drop off box/folder will be made for it) HW 2 Solutionw
Sept 3 Finish Correlations and bar plots
If time, probability

Week 4

Date Lecture HW Due Suggested Reading
Sept 8 Finish Probability HW due 4pm on Friday Sept 11 HW 3 Solutions
Sept 10 Probability

Week 5

Date Lecture HW Due Suggested Reading
Sept 15 Normality
Sept 17 Finish Normality and Review

Week 6

Date Lecture HW Due Suggested Reading
Sept 22 Exam and Intro to Midterm Project
Sept 24 Permutation Testing HW 4 due October 2nd by 4pm link to Normal Dist. Calculator


Week 7

Date Lecture HW Due Useful Stuff
Sept 29 Hypothesis Statement Practice and accessibility in data visualizations HW 5 due Friday at 4pm at my office
Oct 1 Sampling Dists