Today, we’re going to fiddle with our WordPress site a bit to try to get it looking as nice as possible. Specifically, we’d like to make our visualziation embeds fit as nicely as possible in our page. There are three primary items that affect this: We’ll talk about the first two here today. Embedding examples […]

We’re going to play with ChatGPT today a bit. We’ve got a few objectives in mind: ChatGPT Versions As of today, ChatGPT comes in a couple flavors: Version 3.5 and Version 4 In addition, ChatGPT 3.5 Turbo and ChatGPT 4 are available via an API or an Application Programming Interface. That means you can write

Today, we’re going to learn about the general ideas behind making probabilistic predictions based on data. While this might seem a bit out there, it’s really the first step towards an understanding of machine learning – the general engine that tools like Chat GPT work on. I’ll be referring to this webpage to guide us

Today, you’re going to create a nice post on your WordPress site by embedding a couple of interactive scatterplots. You’ll generate and embed a couple of versions: Observable version Your Observable version should end up looking something like so: Don’t freak out! I’ll help you in class. The first step will be to fork this

Last time, we took a look at an interactive scatter plot that suggested how certain stats in college basketball might be related to winning percentage. Today, we’re going to push that further several ways: The end product Here’s a refined version of the chart we saw last time: Correlation? In statistics, the correlation between two

in college basketball In most team sports, I guess that it’s generally pretty obvious that the more points you score the more games you’re likely to win. The scatter plot below, for example, indicates how points scored in throughout a college basketball season are related to a team’s winning percentage. What should we emphasize to

We’re going to move towards thinking about sports for a bit with a few objectives in mind: Last year’s men’s Big South basketball season Let’s start with groovy look at last year’s men’s Big South basket season: This kind of chart is called a chord diagram. The beginning and ending width of a ribbon connecting

We’ve got another project coming up which will, hopefully, be First Year Showcase worthy. You can get a sense of the types of things that might be appropriate by taking a look at last year’s showcase. One thing you might notice while looking at last years showcase is that it’s hosted on a WordPress site.

Here’s a map I built yesterday with Datawrapper: This type of map is called a symbol map and it uses a technique called clustering to group points and avoid clutter in the final visualization. Thus, the visualization accounts for all 7335 US cities with a population of at least 5000 people. As you zoom in

More Information The Department of History and the Center for Jewish Studies invites students, staff, and faculty to: What’s Happening in Israel and Gaza?  A Panel Discussion Thursday, October 19 11:45 to 12:45  HIG 125 with panel members Dr. Samer Traboulsi, Department of History Dr. Ayelet Even-Nur, Department of English At this event, Drs. Traboulsi and