This website serves as an introduction to Data Science for middle and high school students and teachers. Among the main topics, this website focuses on:
- Why Statistics is useful in the real world
- Statistics to understand genetic diversity
- Mean, variances, correlations and other summary measures from data
- Probability distributions
- Hypothesis tests (t tests, ANOVA, chi square tests)
For a list of specific learning objectives by lesson, visit this page.
This website
- is intended for middle and high school students learning to apply statistics for the first time,
- covers the basic statistical concepts and tests that are covered in an introductory statistics course,
- was developed to accompany the learning materials of Wisconsin Fast Plants, but the knowledge can be applied for any statistics introductory course
Each lesson
- covers a basic overview of concepts and aims to provide the theoretical take aways without being bogged down by the math,
- has resources for students to learn more about the math behind each concept, but the main purpose of the website is to teach how to think about statistics.
{: .highlight } If you want more statistical information in a free textbook, check out the digital library called openstax and the textbook Free Introductory Business Statistics.
Images on this website are a mix of original and AI-generated images. Images that have a row of multicolored squares are from Dalle2. Graphs and figures, unless noted, are generated with Rstudio which you can download here You can create all the graphs and figures without needing any data with this code. Feel free to adapt it for your own use!