On Monday this week we’ll finish up with the normal distribution by talking about standardization, which will lead into our discussion of anomaly detection, hypothesis testing, and p-values.

On Wednesday we will shift gears slightly and start practicing working with data in R through a case study.

In-class activities, case studies, exercises, etc for this week

We will work on these in breakout rooms. I suggest having one person share their screen and serve as note-taker, or quickly sharing a Google doc so you can work together. All the activities will be a component of the homework you hand in next week.

Activity 1 (Monday): Sensory testing

Activity 2 (Wednesday): Austin Food Critics

Activity 3 (begin on Wednesday, if time): Exploring multivariate data: Mercedes S Class Dataset is here: sclass.csv

Readings, videos, and activities to do for next week

For Monday:

• Read Fitting straight lines
• Complete the following walkthrough: Asking prices of pickup trucks

For Wednesday:

• Read Exponential growth, power laws, and the log transformation
• Complete the following walkthrough: Infant mortality and GDP
• Optional: If you’re feeling uncomfortable about using exponential/log transformations, please watch this review video

Exercises and other things due next week

Complete all three activities above, and these take home exercises