Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-20-2020
Publication Title
Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education
Volume
29
Issue
S1
Abstract
We provide a computational exercise suitable for early introduction in an undergraduate statistics or data science course that allows students to “play the whole game” of data science: performing both data collection and data analysis. While many teaching resources exist for data analysis, such resources are not as abundant for data collection given the inherent difficulty of the task. Our proposed exercise centers around student use of Google Calendar to collect data with the goal of answering the question “How do I spend my time?” On the one hand, the exercise involves answering a question with near universal appeal, but on the other hand, the data collection mechanism is not beyond the reach of a typical undergraduate student. A further benefit of the exercise is that it provides an opportunity for discussions on ethical questions and considerations that data providers and data analysts face in today’s age of large-scale internet-based data collection.
First Page
S51
Last Page
S60
Recommended Citation
Albert Y. Kim & Johanna Hardin (2021) “Playing the Whole Game”: A Data Collection and Analysis Exercise With Google Calendar, Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 29:sup1, S51-S60, DOI: 10.1080/10691898.2020.1799728
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
doi.org/10.1080/10691898.2020.1799728
Rights
© 2021 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor and Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Comments
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