Data Science Workshop

On Monday, February 26th, AGSS hosted a workshop about Data Science at the Boys’ and Girls’ Club at Southwood! Designed and hosted by our Technology Curriculum Head, Tsega Kidanu, we first covered the basics of data science, including why it is so important to analyze the world around us. We then went over the different types of data, such as qualitative and quantitative data, and the different types of graphs it can be organized into.
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​We then demonstrated how data can be collected by surveying students to learn about everyone’s favorite sports, and turned this information into a relevant graph together. After practicing this skill, we distributed assorted candies to the students, who sorted them by the type of candy, then by color, then by size. They recorded this data and as a class, we visualized it with a bar graph - now they were thinking like real data scientists!