3C: Introducing data science and data moves with CODAP (Room 108)

Abstract

We will experience and explore curriculum materials I have used in a high-school stats class to introduce some of the principles behind data science. Students explored larger and less well-behaved data sets than they typically do in statistics, and had to use "data moves" to cope with the data's size and unruliness. You will get to "play student" briefly and repeatedly in a sequence of activities so you see what the data look like. We will discuss the importance of data moves (grouping and filtering are two examples) and how they map onto programming systems (like R) that students might see later. We will see and experience how CODAP facilitates these moves, and even see student work. The learning materials are in an e-book at https://codap.xyz/awash. Participants should bring laptops. Tablets work but are less ideal. Phones are too small. For software, we will use CODAP, a free web-based data analysis platform from the Concord Consortium (https://codap.concord.org). New to CODAP? No problem.