Weekly Question: 23 Jan

Dear Students

I have attached two video links below. Watch one of them and comment on what thoughts you had after watching the video. Also, give two examples of the kind of data that the speakers were using in the video as well as the information that they obtained from the data. You can also give an example of some other data that you have seen converted to information.

Link 1: In this video, Nate Silver talks about the past elections that have taken place and if racism has been a factor in recent elections.

Link 2: In this video,  Muthu Alagappan talks about how analytics are being used to reshape basketball.

The Nate Silver clip is an extraction from a longer clip where he talks about how to predict the outcomes of elections. The entire clip can be found here. 

Looking forward to hearing what you think!

KG