Course Description:  
This course allows students to develop an understanding of computers and coding.

Students, when logging onto our class for the first time, go to:  http://code.org/join and type in the section code (KGYKTD) 

From then on, just go to: http://studio.code.org/sections/KGYKTD (bookmark this page!)

Unit 2:

Post Unit 1 Quiz

U2/Ch2: Compression

U2/Ch2/L1: Student Data Collection Form.

Checking Assumptions
Unit 2 / Ch2 / Lesson9

Video: Google Flu Trends

Big Data...Great Idea Gone Wrong. Each Group Summarize and present one of the following articles:
As you read the article, ask yourself “Why did Google Flu Trends eventually fail? What assumptions did they make about their data or their model that ultimately proved not to be true?“

• Wired - What Can We Learn from the Epic Failure of Google Flu Trends?
• NYTimes - Google Flu Trends: The Limits of Big Data
• Nature - When Google got flu wrong
• Time - Google’s Flu Project Shows the Failings of Big Data
• Harvard Business Review - Google Flu Trends’ Failure Shows Good Data > Big Data

Pew Digital Divide PowerPoint

U4Ch1L1- What is Big Data Big Data

Sleuth Card _ Web Sites:

1. Web archive http://www.archive.org

2. Measure of America http://www.measureofamerica.org/maps/

3. Wind Sensor network http://earth.nullschool.net/

4. Twitter sentiment https://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/tweet_viz/tweet_app/

If Extra Time:
Data.gov
Open Data (opendata.socrata.com)
Open Data Network (www.opendatanetwork.com/)