Ted Talk Stats Part of our computer science class, was connected to what we did in English. In English, we made Ted Talks. We had to somehow use what we learned in How to Lie With Statistics in our Ted Talk and create our Ted Talk Stats. My Ted Talk is about pressure in childhood sports so I took a survey on reasons why children quit sports.
How to Lie With Statistics The next project we did in computer science was How to Lie with Statistics. Each day, we read a different way people can lie with statistics. Some included omitting data, pictographs, non-proportional graphs and changing the y-axis. Then, we got a random scenario that we had to convince someone with, using How to Lie With Statistics. Mine was "Convince your teacher to change your grade." I had to make a graph and convince my teacher to change my grade.
Sheets Another computer science project, was google sheets. We learned about the different parts of google sheets and how to add formulas and functions. After reading and learning about google sheets, we had to create our own google sheet and use all of the information we had previously learned.
Data Display of You
For computer science we created a data display. We used google sheets to make a data display of us. This has information about my hobbies, personalities, and what I like to do. After choosing, the different traits or hobbies, that make up myself, I had to create what percentage they make up of me.
Instagram Account
In computer science we made a fake Instagram account. We made a fake Instagram account, using some information from the data display, and put pictures of anything that we like to do. We also had to create our profile picture and bio on the fake Instagram. After, people looked at our Instagram template and had to try to guess what we valued. I enjoyed looking at what people thought I liked to do based off of my pictures.