Math 146: Morgan-Krick, V. (Fall 2022): Data stories

A Freakonomics Radio episode from March 2022 that is wide ranging exploration of our cultural and political relationships with wolves and deer, with data analysis that seems to indicate that the Big Bad Wolf might just save us from Bambi.*

*The Big Bad Wolf is a character appearing in a number of European folk and fairy tales who stalks, terrorizes, deceives, and eats other characters. Bambi is a deer fawn heavily romanticized in a 1942 Disney movie of the same name.

A May 2020 article from the MIT Sloan School of Management about "data storytelling" described as the ability to convey data "not just in numbers or charts, but as a narrative that humans can comprehend." This article is about how data scientists are not always able to recognized and convey a "data tale" into actionable insights, and why it matters.

From The Guardian, a May 2020 article about the hidden aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic that only carefully collected and analyzed data can reveal. "I am fascinated by what is left out of datasets. What we collect and omit tells us something about what we value and overlook as a society" (Caelainn Barr, data projects editor, The Guardian).

In this January 2021 article published by The Conversation, Professor Felesia Stukes of Johnson C. Smith University explains how her student-driven data analysis program helps their men's and women's sports teams, and increases "the number of Black students in computer science education and research."