Semester Statistics Reflection
This semester Statistics has shown me math in more of a real world, logistical sense. Coming from a math class I did not find much interest in the past, I found a new love for math as a whole. Statistics gives me the opportunity to think about mathematical challenges such as income inequality and correlations. We started out the year looking at these two, very complicated, global issues. Issues like these give students like myself a more interesting, more applicable ideas to think about and understand.
As the norm of math classes in the past has been a never-ending stack of textbook problems, the Statistics room has made me think deeply and more personally with my math. For example when we started the correlation mini project each student had the freedom to choose a topic, which they had an interest in studying. For me chose to look at snowfall at the Denver International Airport and how it correlates with the Carbon Dioxide emissions released in North America. In order to find how these two different measurements correlation I had to put these numbers into a spreadsheet, then calculating the z score I concluded that these measurements have a significant negative correlation. Meaning that according to my ten years of data, as the emissions of Carbon Dioxide go up the amount recorded snowfall goes down. This side mini project taught me skills regarding spreadsheet construction and analysis. Here is a link to this spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/a/animashighschool.com/spreadsheets/d/1CyA1gIquZrPGrdjCOizWVgz_kdZLLjL8ia0yCBkMdOk/edit#gid=0
The spreadsheet skill for me started off a little bit confusing, but due to the straight forward design of Google spreadsheet I could master many different calculations by a little bit of basic understanding.
This skill of building a spreadsheet has helped me with my spreadsheet engineering, a skill I could not of completely previous to this class. I can how correlate to different measures with a spreadsheet; I can also diagnose a z score and confidence interval. These show what percent of the data the other can explain. This skill will help me with any work in this area in the future. This skill may help me next semester if I decide to preform a deeper analysis of this correlation or something similar.
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As the norm of math classes in the past has been a never-ending stack of textbook problems, the Statistics room has made me think deeply and more personally with my math. For example when we started the correlation mini project each student had the freedom to choose a topic, which they had an interest in studying. For me chose to look at snowfall at the Denver International Airport and how it correlates with the Carbon Dioxide emissions released in North America. In order to find how these two different measurements correlation I had to put these numbers into a spreadsheet, then calculating the z score I concluded that these measurements have a significant negative correlation. Meaning that according to my ten years of data, as the emissions of Carbon Dioxide go up the amount recorded snowfall goes down. This side mini project taught me skills regarding spreadsheet construction and analysis. Here is a link to this spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/a/animashighschool.com/spreadsheets/d/1CyA1gIquZrPGrdjCOizWVgz_kdZLLjL8ia0yCBkMdOk/edit#gid=0
The spreadsheet skill for me started off a little bit confusing, but due to the straight forward design of Google spreadsheet I could master many different calculations by a little bit of basic understanding.
This skill of building a spreadsheet has helped me with my spreadsheet engineering, a skill I could not of completely previous to this class. I can how correlate to different measures with a spreadsheet; I can also diagnose a z score and confidence interval. These show what percent of the data the other can explain. This skill will help me with any work in this area in the future. This skill may help me next semester if I decide to preform a deeper analysis of this correlation or something similar.
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