Thinking about data analysis
09 Sep 2015Links from lectures/walkthroughs
How to Lie, Cheat, Manipulate, and Mislead using Statistics and Visualizations
Crime up after Ferguson and more police needed, top St. Louis area chiefs say
The Reinhart and Rogoff Controversy: A Summing Up - The New Yorker
Is the evidence for austerity based on an Excel spreadsheet error? - The Washington Post
Reinhart, Rogoff... and Herndon: The student who caught out the profs - BBC News
Links for reading exercise analysis
About Those Rising Murder Rates: Not So Fast | The Marshall Project
FBI — Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, January-June 2014
Is The 'Ferguson Effect' Behind Hartford's Homicide Jump? - Hartford Courant
NYC Police Union Chief Blames Mayor, Protesters For Police Killings
Assignments for Sept. 16
Read: Facebook will lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers
Read: City rape statistics, investigations draw concern - Baltimore Sun
Homework 1
Make me a St. Louis chart by month. I want total and I want ratio like we did for Baltimore. Save the chart as an image and upload it to your private repo. Email me the link.
Tutorial: What we did in class: Investigating homicide stats
Data: Post-Dispatch
Homework 2
- Copy and paste the code you used to pass the 14th exercise into an html file and upload it to your GitHub repo. Email me the link.
Homework 3
- Think of a question or a theme that you'd like to explore. If you already have a data set in mind you'd like to explore, that's also fine.
Assignments due before 2 p.m. on Sept. 16.