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Activity Guide - Exploring Two Columns - Unit

This document provides instructions and questions for an activity exploring crosstabs and scatter plots using different datasets. Students are asked to create charts using various column combinations and analyze patterns in the data, such as relationships between variables and identifying which values are highest or lowest.

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Activity Guide - Exploring Two Columns - Unit

This document provides instructions and questions for an activity exploring crosstabs and scatter plots using different datasets. Students are asked to create charts using various column combinations and analyze patterns in the data, such as relationships between variables and identifying which values are highest or lowest.

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Unit 9 Lesson 4

Name(s)_______________________________________________ Period ______ Date ___________________

Activity Guide - Exploring Two Columns

Cross Ta
1. Crosstab - Use the “Words” dataset
Use: Length & Part of Speech
a. Chart - Copy and paste the chart you created in the space below

b. Which part of speech shows up most often in this data set?

Noun part of the speech

c. Which part of speech seems to be longest, on average?

noun part of the speech.

d. Which part of speech seems to be shortest, on average?

The republican part of the speech.

e. About how long is the "typical" noun? How can you tell?
About 399, look at the where the most at.

2. Crosstab - Use the “Favorite Classes” dataset


Use: Grade & Favorite Class
a. Chart - Copy and paste the chart you created in the space below

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b. Which class do Seniors like the most?

Computer science

c. Which grade likes History the most?


Freshman grade

d. What is one other interesting pattern you can see in this diagram?
Junior and Sophomore have more distributed favorite classes

Scatte
1. Scatter - Use the “US States” dataset
Use: Median Household Income & Percent Adult College Graduates
a. Chart - Copy and paste the chart you created in the space below

e. What is the range of incomes on this chart?

19 to 22

f. What is the range of percentages of adult college graduates?


19 to 22

g. Do you see a relationship between income and percent of adult college graduates? What does the
relationship look like?
I see the relationship, they are directly proportional. As Median household income increase, percentage of adult college
graduation increase.

3. Scatter - Use the “US States” dataset


Use: You pick the columns to compare
In the States table find a combination of columns in a Scatter Plot that you think show an interesting pattern

a. Chart - Copy and paste the chart you created in the space below

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b. What is the pattern that you observe in this data?

Decreasing between population and population rank

c. Describe what this pattern might mean or indicate.

As the population increases, the population rank decrease.

d. Usually we can't be sure whether the pattern we observe in a scatter chart (a correlation) means that
one of the columns is causing the other. Give one way you might do more research to try to investigate
the cause of the pattern you found.
Correlation does to mean causation, for example, the more ice cream sells the more murder rate in a scatter plot, they
are not directly causing each other. People cannot buy ice cream to kill people.

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