1. Do it yourself

2. Your Mission Investigate a data set using the PPDAC method The data set (General Social Survey) is on Ranginet. You MUST: Pose an appropriate COMPARISON question Plan your attack Data State if/how you are cleaning the data If you are taking a smaller sample you need to state how Analyse the data Dot Plot Box and Whisker Conclude Make a call! Justify it.

3. What is it? The General Social Survey (GSS) conducts basic scientific research on the structure and development of American society with a data-collection program designed to both monitor social change within the United States and to compare the United States to other nations. The GSS data sets contain a standard ‘core’ of demographic and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest, representing the population of American adults, 18 years of age or older. Many of the core questions have remain unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings.

4. ID RACE AGE SEX MARITAL STATUS HIGHEST DEGREE HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL FATHER HIGHEST DEGREE FATHER HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL MOTHER HIGHEST DEGREE MOTHER HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL SPOUSE HIGHEST DEGREE SPOUSE HIGHEST YEAR SCHOOL BORN IN THIS COUNTRY NUMBER OF SIBLINGS NUMBER OF CHILDREN IDEAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN AGE WHEN 1ST CHILD BORN PERSONS IN HOUSEHOLD LABOR FORCE STATUS INCOME FAMILY INCOME HOW MANY IN FAMILY EARNED MONEY OPINION OF FAMILY INCOME SATISFACTION WITH FINANCIAL SITUATION CHANGE IN FINANCIAL SITUATION SUBJECTIVE CLASS IDENTIFICATION WEEKS WORKED LAST YEAR LIKELY TO LOSE JOB US CITIZEN SPEAK LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH PARTY AFFILIATION MARIJUANA BE MADE LEGAL LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER MAIN SOURCE OF NEWS HOW OFTEN READ NEWSPAPER GUN IN HOME LIVING STANDARD COMPARED TO PARENTS OWN OR RENT HOME HOURS PER DAY WATCHING TV HIGHEST LEVEL OF MATH COMPLETED IN HS QUALITY OF SCIENCE & MATH EDUC IN US IS INADEQUATE WORDS CORRECT IN VOCAB TEST RELIGIOUS PREFERENCE HOW RELIGIOUS CONDITION OF HEALTH CONFID IN EDUCATION CONFID IN PRESS CONFID IN TELEVISION LIFE EXCITING OR DULL GENERAL HAPPINESS HAPPINESS OF MARRIAGE

5. How to do graphs Dot Plots (in excel) http://processtrends.com/pg_charts_dot_plots.htm Box and Whisker http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/BoxPlot/ Tinkerplots http://www.keypress.com/x2842.xml For help : http://www.billpegram.com/ed554/fall06/tinkerplots.html For help : http://www.billpegram.com/ed554/fall06/tinkerplots.html

6. For the free 20 minute trial, you can make preview your option.

7. Using Tinkerplots To get the cards section just click on Cards and drag into the window. You can copy data from an excel spreadsheet and right click on the cards section. Then you can Paste Cases.

8. You can make a graph by clicking and dragging the Plot icon

9. You can decide what data goes into the graph by clicking the attribute you want and dragging it to one of the axes.

10. You can change the size of the dots You can choose a box and whisker from here

11. To capture pictures you can use Jing. Just capture, copy, and paste into your wiki.

12. The Wiki Part http://10max.wikispaces.com/ Sign in!

13. This is where you will go to make a new page for your group This is where to look at the assignment requirements

14. Put the name of your group here Then click create You can upload files (eg images) here You can write in here

15. If all else fails.... http://wheretostartwithwikisandblogs.wikispaces.com / http://wheretostartwithwikisandblogs.wikispaces.com / It’ll tell you all you need to know.