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the
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Scatterplots
Worksheets
The
Challenger Disaster
Anscombe's
Datasets
Using
a Scatterplot to Find a Friend
Datasets
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and stories to support this topic.
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A worksheet that gives a brief background to the Challenger disaster and the dataset that gave warning of the disaster. A nice introduction to scatterplots and the importance of displaying data clearly.
Two overhead transparencies - the first has F.J. Anscombe's famous quartet of datasets and the second has the scatterplots of these datasets. Absolutely convincing proof of the need to look at the data first. It convinced me anyway. The scatterplots were produced using NCSS 6.0 Jr.
Using a Scatterplot to Find a Friend
Peter Smith from Mechanicsburg High School in Pennsylvania shares this great introductory activity that helps students learn about scatterplots and correlation.
Given three columns of data, this site generates a VRML file for viewing the data in 3-dimensions, including 'flying' right in the middle of the data. Great fun. You will need a VRML browser to view the scatterplot.
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