Hello, Steve! Here you will find all the links you need to do this class with me!

Meeting 1: Absolute and Relative Numbers

• Discuss handout. Let’s look at some Honey Bee Data.

• Discuss Chicago Tribune article on homicide.

• Get familiar with the NYTimes: What's Going On In This Graph?

• Teach handout on Percent Of Problems

Meeting 2: Percentage Of

• Discuss initial handout on Percent Of Problems

• Work with related data

• Check in to What's Going On In This Graph?

• Week 1-2 Concepts and Problems

• More Problems and Percentage Change/Difference

Meeting 3: Percentage Change/Difference

• Discuss handout on Percentage Change/Difference

• Work with related data

• More Percentage Problems and a Video on Percentage Change

• Excel Practice: Open Population by Race from 1980 to 2000
  and do the problems listed at the bottom of the data.
  Watch my video for help if you need it.

• Check in to What's Going On In This Graph? 

Meeting 4: Graphing (we might take an extra week on this)

• Discuss handout on Graphing

• Work with related data and make graphs!

• Graphing Assignment February 15; Pay Gap Assignment; Making an Argument Assignment

• Check in to What's Going On In This Graph? 

Meeting 5: Linear Models

• Discuss Tipping Point and related set of questions.

• Work with related data and make and use models.

• Teach and give handout on Exponential Models

• Check in to What's Going On In This Graph?

Meeting 6: Exponential Models

• Discuss handout on Exponential Models

• Work with related data and make and use models.

• Teach and give handout on Consumer Price Index (CPI)

• Check in to What's Going On In This Graph?

Meeting 7: Consumer Price Index (CPI)

• Discuss handout on CPI

• Work with related data.

• Teach and give handout on Optional Topics

• Check in to What's Going On In This Graph?

Meeting 8: Optional Topics (Savings and Loans, Correlation, …)

• Discuss handout on __________ .

• Work with related data.

• Start discussing final project.

• Check in to What's Going On In This Graph?

Ongoing Meetings

• We will keep on working together as you research and write a final paper on the topic of your choosing. The goal will be a feature-length newspaper or magazine article complete with many graphs, quantitative analysis, and a lovely essay.

Data we might consider:

• Honey Bee Data

• Voting Data Voting by State in 2016

• Census Bureau

• Qrc.depaul.edu

• HIV data

• Men’s Mile Record Times (wiki source)

• US Population by Race from 1980 to 2000

• People in Poverty and Income Earnings

• Median Income in Census Bureau - Race and Gender Median Income