An excellent description, see here.
Working with Data – Slides
To review the slides from the 11/17 workshop on working with data, please use this link.
Real-world Data Analysis
Stories by Method is a CMU site where you can explore the application of various statistical methods on real-world data. If you’re thinking to use a particular data analysis technique or visual tool, (e.g., histogram or correlation), the link will provide you a selection of case senarios.
Types of Survey Questions
The linked survey provides some examples of different types of survey questions. If you’re thinking about a survey, it may give you some good ideas for question structure and scales.
Poster Templates – Keynote and PowerPoint
I’ve posted templates in both Keynote and PowerPoint on our site. Please be sure that your template is a good choice for the types of content that you plan to show (photos, charts, graphs, maps) and that the overall design incorporates the elements of a good poster that we discussed in class.
Scientific Poster Design
Here are the slides for the lecture of scientific poster design. I’ll be posting more resources shortly. For now, you can refer to the archived information on the Baruch ITF site.
Asthma in Queens
This map shows the relationship between having asthma and the admittance to emergency center due to asthma. The color of the region from white to blue represents the frequency of residents who have been told by a doctor, nurse or other health professional that they had asthma. The color of the border line from white to black represents the number of times the residents have been admitted to emergency center because of asthma.
Asthma and Smoking in Queens
This is a map of Queens. The darker the green means that more people have asthma in tat area. Yellow dots indicate frequency of smoking. The more yellow dots, the more people smoke in that area. There does not seem to be a good correlation between the frequency of smoking and asthma. After making a scattergram, it was clear that there was little correlation between smoking and the frequency of asthma in queens. Seems that frequency of asthma might have to do with something else. Other research might need to be done to figure out cause of asthma.
Cigars and Asthma – not as related as you would expect!
With all the studies out there linking smoking and various diseases like asthma, this graph caught me off-guard. I expected there to be a high correlation between two variables like cases of asthma and cigar smoking, but I found that the two, while indeed seemingly correlated, were dwarfed by the variable of borough. In Manhattan, for instance, while there is a much greater population and thus more cases of asthma, there is still a higher quantity of asthma cases per unit of population. Staten Island, on the other hand, has a very high rate of cigar smoking, but much lower cases of asthma. In two boroughs of Queens, bordering Brooklyn, one even clearly see a neighborhood where many people quit smoking have more cases of asthma than one where many people smoke. I found much of this data very interesting and worth looking into further to discover the truth behind asthma and smoking.
Asthma and Smoking in Lower Manhattan
This map shows the incidence of Asthma reports and Smoking in Lower Manhattan neighborhoods. The incidence of asthma reports happens to positively correlate with the amount of smoking reported in those specific neighborhoods. However, there appears to be a wide variance between neighborhoods in regards to these rates. The Chelsea area appears to have the smallest incidence of both types of information. This can possibly be attributed to Chelsea’s young and liberal population, which is more likely to avoid smoking cigarettes. The lower rate of asthma can also be possibly attributed to the residential focus of these neighborhoods, responsible for a reduced amount of freight traffic, in contrast to that found in more industrial and commercial areas.
