Month <ord> | Year <int> | Disease.rate <dbl> | Wounds.rate <dbl> | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apr | 1854 | 1.4 | 0.0 | |
| 2 | May | 1854 | 6.2 | 0.0 | |
| 3 | Jun | 1854 | 4.7 | 0.0 | |
| 4 | Jul | 1854 | 150.0 | 0.0 | |
| 5 | Aug | 1854 | 328.5 | 0.4 | |
| 6 | Sep | 1854 | 312.2 | 32.1 | |
| 7 | Oct | 1854 | 197.0 | 51.7 | |
| 8 | Nov | 1854 | 340.6 | 115.8 | |
| 9 | Dec | 1854 | 631.5 | 41.7 | |
| 10 | Jan | 1855 | 1022.8 | 30.7 |
The Nature of Data
How does Human Experience link with Data?
What makes Human Experience?
How would we begin to describe this experience?
- Where / When?
- Who?
- How?
- How Big? How small? How frequent? How sudden?
- And….How Surprising ! How Shocking! How sad…How Wonderful !!!
- So: Our Questions, and our Surprise lead us to creating Human Experiences.
Does this Surprise you?
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Childcare is not just a woman’s responsibility.
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The Element of Surprise?
Jane Austen knew a lot about human information processing as these snippets from Pride and Prejudice (published in 1813 – over 200 years ago)1 show :
- She was a woman of mean understanding, little information , and uncertain temper.
- Catherine and Lydia had information for them of a different sort.
- When this information was given, and they had all taken their seats, Mr. Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire,…
- You could not have met with a person more capable of giving you certain information on that head than myself, for I have been connected with his family in a particular manner from my infancy.
- This information made Elizabeth smile, as she thought of poor Miss Bingley.
- This information, however, startled Mrs. Bennet …
Claude Shannon and Information
https://plus.maths.org/content/information-surprise
Human Experience is….Data??
Experiments and Hypotheses: A Kitchen Experiment
- Inputs are: Ingredients, Recipes, Processes
- Outputs are: Taste, Texture, Colour, Quantity!!
What is the Result of an Experiment?
- All experiments give us data about phenomena
- Outputs: We obtain data about the things that happen
- Inputs: What makes things happen?
- Process: How?
- Factors: When?
- Effect Size: How much “output” is caused by how much “input”?
All Experiments stem from
- Human Curiosity,
- a Hypothesis, and - a Desire to Find out and Talk about Something
A Famous Lady and her Famous Experiment
In 1853, Turkey declared war on Russia. After the Russian Navy destroyed a Turkish squadron in the Black Sea, Great Britain and France joined with Turkey. In September of the following year, the British landed on the Crimean Peninsula and set out, with the French and Turks, to take the Russian naval base at Sevastopol.
What followed was a tragicomedy of errors – failure of supply, failed communications, international rivalries. Conditions in the armies were terrible, and disease ate through their ranks. They finally did take Sevastopol a year later, after a ghastly assault. It was ugly business all around. Well over half a million soldiers lost their lives during the Crimean War.
Florence Nightingale’s Data
How Does Data look Like, then?
Types of Variables - Using Interrogative Pronouns
- Nominal: What? Who? Where? (Factors, Dimensions)
- Ordinal: Which Types? What Sizes? How Big? (Factors, Dimensions)
- Interval: How Often? (Numbers, Facts)
- Ratio: How many? How much? How heavy? (Numbers, Facts)
Types of Variables in Nightingale Data
Using Interrogative Pronouns
- Nominal: None
- Ordinal: (Factors, Dimensions)
- HOW?
War, Disease, Other
- HOW?
- Interval: (Numbers, Facts)
- WHEN?
Year, Month
- WHEN?
- Ratio: (Numbers, Facts)
- HOW MANY?
Rate of Deaths(War, Disease, Other)
- HOW MANY?
The Nature of Data How does Human Experience link with Data?