Writing about data
Is Code the Best Way to Represent a Data Analysis?. Roger Peng, Simply Statistics, 2022.
“Looks okay to me”: A study of best practice in data analysis code review. Amal Abdel-Ghani, Kelly Bodwin, Amelia McNamara, Allison Theobold, and Ian Flores Siaca. ICOTS11, 2022.
Writing about data– one number story
Focus on one number (but use more numbers to contextualize it!)
That number might be the mean, the median, the maximum, the total…
Use simple data tools— in my class, we use spreadsheets for this assignment (sort, summarize, pivot tables).
- “Boston Wins The High School Dropout Race”
- “Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science Remains Atop the Podium”
- “10 High Schools in Massachusetts had a Perfect Graduation Rate in 2016”
- “New Century School Math Achievement Grows Again”
- “Math achievement lower for SLP students of color”
Writing about data– Wikipedia articles
Four times now, I have had students author Wikipedia articles about people who did not previously have them.
- Carmen Batanero
- Karl Broman
- Jenny Bryan
- Andreas Buja
- Catherine D’Ignazio
- Nick Horton
- Jessica Hullman
- Jeff Leek
- Thomas Lumley
- Giorgia Lupi
- Regina Nuzzo
- Tawana Petty
- Stefanie Posavec
- Julia Silge
- Julia Stewart Lowndes
- Antony Unwin