1. Dr. Bob Mann Western Illinois University rr-mann@wiu.edu
What’s In A Name?
Dr. Bob Mann
Western Illinois University

2. Everybody Has a Name It provides a great source for data
For conversation
For student engagement and investment

3. This presentation focuses on using names to cover many items from Data Analysis
It’s not a great talk
It’s not a bad talk
I would say it is average, but that would be mean 

4. Warm-Up: My Real Age
There are 10 students in a room. Their average age is 18 years. I walk into the room and now the average age for that room is 21.
What is my age?
Think about it….
Share solutions?
Content and problem solving??

5. Back to Names Think about if you wrote out your first and last name.
How many letters would there be?
For my name, Bob Mann, for example there would be 7
Carefully count the letters in your name and then use a marker to record that number in BIG, easy to read print on a sticky-note.
Then place your sticky note on our board or wall.

6. We now have data—but we can we say about the number of letters in a person’s name?
How can we organize this data?
How can we describe this data?
How can we summarize this data?

7. My Real Name….. I fibbed a little My actual name is
Roberto VanManninghamMcLearyO’Sullivanowskitropolis
That has 49 letters
What happens when Roberto joins our group???

8. We now have data—but we can we say about the number of letters in a person’s name?
How can we organize this data?
How can we describe this data?
How can we summarize this data?

9. What can we learn from analyzing names?
Outliers?
Mean, Median, Mode
Standard Deviation
Box-Plots and IQR
Shapes of data and data displays

10. Thanks for Attending! Email: Roberto VanManninghamMcLearyO’Sullivanowskitropolis@yahoo.com