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MattGPT says: Which means that if you wanted to go back, and if you're not able to attend class, you'd be able to see the the recordings there. Okay,
MattGPT says: so that's something that I will do every class session. I don't always remember
MattGPT says: to do it. So
MattGPT says: if you see me starting fast about setting up zoom
MattGPT says: team. Just remind me.
MattGPT says: try and do make sure it's it's going. Okay. So that's that there
MattGPT says: most of you. How do people ride a bike yet?
MattGPT says: Okay.
MattGPT says: how many people ride? Bikes? Well, have ridden a bike in their life without a helmet?
MattGPT says: Okay, cool. That's good to see.
MattGPT says: All right. Okay, that's cool, because I think you ever tried to do this. But I'm
MattGPT says: twice your age. My! When I was a kid, and I love riding my bike. I still ride my bike. I ride my bike into work into work today. And yes, I was wearing helmet, and I wouldn't dream of getting on my bike without a helmet on these days. Right? I just wouldn't do it. But I remember you know the whole of my childhood
MattGPT says: I wrote a bike. This was in the first sort of Bmx craze. and it never even fought. To wear a to wear a helmet. No, but it's interesting. Now, how like if you go to Google and you can try this if you do a search which is like.
MattGPT says: go to Google images and search for kids, writing wipes about a helmet.
MattGPT says: Try it. I did try a little bit earlier. It's actually hard to find what you're looking for, right? So what we're looking for is.
MattGPT says: I was trying to find a good illustration of a kid having great time on a bike without a helmet.
MattGPT says: kid riding a bike
MattGPT says: without a helmet.
MattGPT says: Okay, so let's try that.
MattGPT says: Okay, well, there is actually a few more than I saw here. But most of what you see actually are pictures of kids with helmets, and if you keep kind of scrolling down, then you see some sort of like.
MattGPT says: I'm not sure if it's going to come up in this one. But there was like pictures of children in ice. The Icu had some sort of accident and stuff like that.
MattGPT says: And it's all about the fact that, like you shouldn't really be writing all up. You know, our cultural sort of
MattGPT says: idea today, at least in in the Us. Is so you should be wearing a helmet when you're on a bike. And kids especially, you know, if you were a parent, then you should be kidding about
MattGPT says: helmet on. You'd probably get some other well, meeting people, probably. Well, meeting parents who would kind of say, why do you let your kid ride without helmet? Okay? That's kind of interesting, right? And how the data is. But if you keep kind of scrolling down what you might find, or if you change the search a little bit.
MattGPT says: or if you were searched for a different country. like, if you were looking at cycling in Amsterdam.
MattGPT says: You'd see all the pictures of people with bikes and none of the way helmets.
MattGPT says: Okay, and so it's kind of interesting. This is what we kind of doing in this course, this is a clust thinking about data. What is data. And we're gonna come back to a lot of things with data is data are, you know, there's that question of singular plural.
MattGPT says: and think, think of, think about a lot of those things. focus
MattGPT says: quite a lot on practical tools by analyzing data. Okay? And so a lot of you may be interested in this class because we're gonna cover a little bit of piping as the main language that we learn. But also some are popular language and some other tools. I'll show you how to use that. So you can get some practical skills which are becoming increasingly important in
MattGPT says: in the workplace, right? Having data skills. It's becoming important
MattGPT says: But actually.
MattGPT says: we're in the in the context here, this is a communication class, right? So this isn't a programming class.
MattGPT says: honest and engineering for data analysis. But primarily by this is a communication process that we're looking at data science. So we're thinking about where data you know, data are all around us. And we are producing data all the time.
MattGPT says: and particularly thinking about a lot of ways in which we interact and primary primary thing about our interactions as human beings is that we communicate with each other right? And so
MattGPT says: we're going to. We're going to think a lot about those sort of things right? And so
MattGPT says: there's different ways in which we can see that when we think about doing these kinds of searches and looking how things are represented in the media right?
MattGPT says: Other things that came up when I was doing these search earlier was like an infographic from the Cdc. Which was showing sort of like why you shouldn't ride your bike without a helmet, and so on. And so we've seen
MattGPT says: sort of all those things the other things that we're going to talk about. And I'll talk a little bit about today is rounds in which we encounter data.
MattGPT says: And if we're thinking about being learning some skills for handling data and becoming more comfortable with handling data. And we're going to call that data literacy and send where people read them right? And how that's foundational
MattGPT says: for us. And you know, when we're at school, we learn some
MattGPT says: numeracy or numeric literacy. More and more this term data literacy is being used. And that's sort of like the foundation. And a central goal in this class is to increase our data literacy so that we feel comfortable reading data when we see data represented in different ways, and particularly again from a communication perspective.
MattGPT says: Looking at later in the news where numbers come out.
MattGPT says: etc. Those sorts of things. But also, you know, when we we've got interesting questions.
MattGPT says: how dangerous is it to ride a bike about a helmet? Then there's probably some data out there that we could go and we could try and find. You know, someone's collected some data from er around the around the country, and we can probably find those data.
MattGPT says: And if we're gonna do, if we're gonna ask those kind of questions and wanna shoot them, we just need some basic skills of being comfortable with being able to find those data and understand them structure that they're in. Read them, pull out the bits of information that we need them and then go on and analyze. Okay. So just as we feel comfortable when we say, you know, we've all learned reading and writing like reading allows us to
MattGPT says: process a whole amount of and and
MattGPT says: a whole load of information that's around us. And then we write and we talk to the community.
MattGPT says: by analogy, you want to develop our comfort and our skills of doing the same things with data. Okay, so that's what we mean when we talk about data literacy.
MattGPT says: And some of you may be interested in actually going into careers where you're thinking about be a data scientist or a data analyst. Or I think that within this kind of
MattGPT says: field that I'm interested in, I'm seeing that increasingly, data is becoming really important and being able to handle data is important. And so there, that would be thinking about professional realm in which you're going to be handling data.
MattGPT says: Okay,
MattGPT says: another one is that increasingly, we're going to see data important in the public realm. And we just saw that
MattGPT says: in the past 3 or 4 years. during the pandemic, where
MattGPT says: on a daily basis. Most of us are exposed to a lot of data about case counts.
MattGPT says: and vaccination rates state by state location, by location, broken down different ways, and some of that presented visually some of that was presented.
MattGPT says: in articles and increasingly and
MattGPT says: Increasingly, we see this within journalism right. There's what's called data journalism of the developing sort of movement where
MattGPT says: your source for your articles that you're you're making this data, you know, or different types of data.
MattGPT says: And so more and more in the public realm. When there's questions about policy,
MattGPT says: questions up.
MattGPT says: how many accidents are there within the Philadelphia region that involve bicycles or thinking about crime statistics, those sorts of things those data are increasingly available in the public realm.
MattGPT says: And if we're thinking about, you know, issues that we care about and being involved in activism in some ways having
MattGPT says: skills to be able to go and find those data to understand them, to read them, to process them, and then to communicate the findings. There is an important one. And then the final place in which we encamped. Data is is personal. Okay? And so, increasingly.
MattGPT says: you know our whole lives
MattGPT says: without even thinking about it. Where things about us are being recorded all the time right? Carry our phones around? We use
MattGPT says: all sorts of services that are really convenient for us, and allow us to do all sorts of things. And as a trade-off, we agree. Like, yeah, you can collect this kind of data for about me, you know, and I'm willing to trade that kind of
MattGPT says: and
MattGPT says: the privacy for the benefits I get. I use Uber. It's really, really convenient. I use it, you know, finger and app. And you can look at your phone
MattGPT says: on a database. We're using those. And we're giving away all sorts of information about ourselves. And we're saying that that's that's okay. It's the cost of the benefits that we get. So that's the professional round we're going to. We're going to think about where we might encounter data and need be data, literate
MattGPT says: the public realm
MattGPT says: and then the personal realm.
MattGPT says: Okay, so we'll come back and we'll talk about those free areas again and again. And the assignments in this class built around that. Okay?
MattGPT says: And so from my announcement, you saw. And also it's on the syllabus
MattGPT says: and I'm not gonna spend too much time on this. But you see that I requested you think about wearing mark in this part, and my reasons for that. I have to talk individually. People, if they have questions about that are both personal and professional, and so personal is that I live with someone who is
MattGPT says: Immune is immune immunocompromprise. And I'm trying to make sure that I can do the best to protect her from that
MattGPT says: from any any sort of things, and then the professional one is just in my job. My job here is to teach and to.
MattGPT says: you know, give you facilitate this class and help you with that. So I wanna say as fit and help you as we possibly can during this season, which is, gonna be flu season so that we can get through the material so that we can get the most out of it. Okay, so those are the reasons behind that if you're wondering. I appreciate your being respectful of people's decisions on that and you'll see that that's there and link to that. Just as I said.
MattGPT says: the passes will be recorded if you are sick.
MattGPT says: Okay, if you're feeling unwell.
MattGPT says: and you think like alright could be coming down even just with a poll. Right? Like.
MattGPT says: think about that right? Think about each other protecting each other. I don't want to, you know Youtube. It won't penalize you from not being in class.
MattGPT says: Zoom, is there to use that for that? Okay, so
MattGPT says: I'm not gonna spend any more time on that. If you have questions about that, or if you're concerned about anything about that. Just reach out to me. I'll happily talk in more detail about it. Okay.
MattGPT says: great. Okay?
MattGPT says: All right. So
MattGPT says: like, I say this, this week, today and
MattGPT says: first day, we're pretty much getting started and getting set up. Okay,
MattGPT says: just a quick kind of
MattGPT says: sure. And how many people have done any sort of python programming before
MattGPT says: you want? Okay, so there's about 4 or 5 of you. Okay, so most of you, not okay. And that's fine. And that's actually this class of designs, you know, no experiences is no programming. Experience is expected.
MattGPT says: What about Using? The programming language.
MattGPT says: Okay, a few more, maybe sort of like, 7 or 8. Okay? And so those are the 2 main languages that we're gonna cover in in this. Okay? So the
MattGPT says: sort of
MattGPT says: practical in terms of
MattGPT says: exposing you to handling data and working with data using those 2 programming languages. Now, there's other ways in which you don't have to be a programmer to be a data scientist or be a data analyst.
MattGPT says: You know, tools like Excel will do sheets. So
MattGPT says: more presentation. There's tools like tableau, etc. There's a whole bunch of tools that are out there. Okay? But
MattGPT says: I do think that having some exposure to doing some basic programming for data, analysis
MattGPT says: is a really useful
MattGPT says: skill to be exposed to, at least. And for some of you may say, Okay, yeah. I had had that class. It wasn't really for me, but at least I understand, and I've been exposed to that. But hopefully, for others, you'll see like.