Intro to Data Analysis

Summary

Materials

• Day 1 PowerPoint deck
• GED VIZ - Tell Your Own Story
• GED VIZ site
• GED VIZ Computer Import/Export data
• A Tale of Economies Activity page
• GED VIZ US Recession data
• GED VIZ Global Recession data
• GED VIZ | Tutorial Video (English Version)
• Here's What Caused the Great Recession | History

Supplemental

• Background of GED VIZ (If you are interested in learning about the background of GED VIZ and/or want to share the background with students.)
• The Digitization of the World

Instructional Activities and Classroom Assessments

1. Introduction to Data Analysis and Visualization (15 minutes)
2. A Tale of Economies (5 minutes)
3. Group Activity: Analyze Impact of the Recession (10 minutes)
4. Group Activity: Tell Your Own Story (15 minutes)
5. Homework

Learning Objectives

• DAT-2.A Describe what information can be extracted from data.
• DAT-2.D
• DAT-2.E

Essential Knowledge

• DAT-2.A.1 Information is the collection of facts and patterns extracted from data.
• DAT-2.A.2 Data provide opportunities for identifying trends, make connections, and addressing problems.
• DAT-2-A.3. Digitally processed data may show correlation between variables. A correlation found in data does not necessarily indicate that a causal relationship exists. Additional research is needed to understand the exact nature of the relationship.
• DAT-2.A.4 Often, a single source does not contain the data needed to draw a conclusion. It may be necessary to combine data from a variety of sources to formulate a conclusion.
• DAT-2.D.1
• DAT-2.D.2
• DAT-2.D.3
• DAT-2.D.4
• DAT-2.D.5
• DAT-2.D.6
• DAT-2.E.1
• DAT-2.E.2
• DAT-2.E.3
• DAT-2.E.4
• DAT-2.E.5

Details

0. Before class

• Create a section in the Collaboration Space of your Class OneNote notebook titled "GED VIZ Stories."
• Copy the GED VIZ - Tell Your Own Story page to the GED VIZ Stories section and duplicate it so that you have enough pages for each small group.
• Number the pages so when you assign the groups, they know which page number they will use.

1. Introduction to Data Analysis and Visualization (15 minutes)

• Define Data Analysis.
• Show students the GED Viz visual of the computer import/export data.
• Explain the trend we see with this data.
• Play the GED VIZ Tutorial video.
• Discuss the goal of GED VIZ.

2. A Tale of Economies (5 minutes)

• Discuss the Great Recession of 2008:
  • Play the video
  • Explain the global impact

3. Group activity: Analyze Impact of the Recession (10 minutes)

• Ask students to use the A Tale of Economies Activity page to guide their exploration of two different GED VIZ slide shows.
• Ask students to work in pairs to review the data for each slide show and answer the questions on the page.
• You can use the Group Generator program to randomly sort students.
• Give students five minutes to explore; if they finish before five minutes, you can move on to the next step.
• Discuss the data together:
  • What were your observations from looking at the data?
  • Why do you think oil trade bounced back the fastest?
  • Why do you think iron/steel was the slowest to recover?
  • Why do you think Greece, Latvia, and Iceland never fully recovered?

4. Group activity: Tell Your Own Story (15 minutes)

• Ask students to work with a teammate to do the following:
  • Go to the GED VIZ - Tell Your Own Story page.
  • Select a topic they will analyze with the GED VIZ tool:
    • Students can find topic ideas on the GED VIZ - Tell Your Own Story page.
  • Create a slide show for the data they are analyzing.
  • Write a short explanation of:
    • What the slide show depicts, and
    • What you believe the data is telling us.
• Ask students to add the link to their slide show and their analysis to a OneNote page in the collaboration space.
• Give students 15 minutes to complete the task.
• If students finish early, encourage students to look at other group's analysis for a couple of minutes.

5. Homework

• If a group does not finish the Tell Your Own Story activity, they need to finish it for homework.