What is Data Analysis and Probability?
Data models are all around us. They are used in advertising, sporting events and even tracking your childs progress in school. It is used by scientists to track patterns in nature and nurses to track information such as a patients’ temperature, or change in temperature. Expose them to examples of data displays from magazines or newspapers. Data Analysis is the gathering and methods of representing your information. Probability is a method of calculating the likleyhood of something happening based on the information you already have. What steps are invovlved? There are two steps to take for a successful data analysis and probability project. 1. Gathering data (or facts) on a particular subject. 2. Presenting that data in a format that has a visual impact that offers an uncomplicated method of interpreting the facts. There are a number of steps to take in the Data Analysis process. 1. What information do you want to know? 2. What questions do you need to ask? 3. Ask the questions to get
