Week 4: CST383 Introduction to Data Science
This week felt especially good because it finally felt like we were working with real data and making something out of it . The second lecture video on Two discrete or categorical variables: visualization was honestly confusing was at first. It was easier to go through the slides on my own then watching the lecture. Having the slides in front of me while watching made a big difference, because I could pause, reread, and connect what was being said to the actual examples. The campaign contributions assignment was hard but fun. Seeing actual candidate names and familiar concepts made the work more engaging and motivating. It didn’t feel like abstract numbers! I know this is not ideal because not every data we will work on will be familiar. What stood out was that unemployed contributors were overrepresented in the number of contributions!! . It’s also possible that “unemployed” was selected inconsistently, which rai...
