In lieu of class, a few paragraphs: (choose One)
(separate
from other HW)
Due Monday in class
B) A paragraph describing one of the
workshops/talks you attended,
+ a paragraph or so on a
situation
where
organized
data could be useful to an activist working for a cause
(either
data which was cited in a workshop you attended, or a place where you
could
see that information could help make or strengthen the "case" for a
cause,
or be useful in improving the activist's skill in some way.)
C) Find one or more
graphs, charts or tables of numbers in the popular press or on the web.
Hand in a copy of it/them. Explain what it's about and
what
it says, and critique it as to how well it conveys the
information.
If you can do it better, redo it.
D) Research Florence Nightingale, primordial activist and
statistician. Report why/how she was an activist, and
why I call her a
statistician.
(A websearch is quickly fruitful. Here are 2 sites with good
info/links, not to say that others are not interesting/useful: http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/flo.html,
http://www.florence-nightingale-avenging-angel.co.uk)
E) Nothing. Counts as a class absence.
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