Predict the Climate by throwing a dice

Predict the Climate by throwing a dice Teaching Module A teaching module that uses a dice and Excel to demonstrate the difference between experimental and theoretical probabilities. It also uses temperature and precipitation data to calculate moving average, identify trends in time series, and learn about data visualisation. This teaching module provides multiple resources under […]

Statistical Methods to Determine Trends in Hurricane Intensity

Statistical Methods to Determine Trends in Hurricane Intensity Classroom/Laboratory Activity A classroom/laboratory activity to learn about linear slope, trends, confidence intervals, and Student’s t-distribution by calculating trends and uncertainties using hurricane data records over 40 years. Using hurricane-related data for the Atlantic Ocean, students will plot graphs and determine trends by calculating linear slope. They […]

Meteorologist for a day

Meteorologist for a day Classroom/Laboratory Activity A classroom/laboratory activity to calculate the mean daily temperature using hourly temperature data and to compare different statistical techniques for determining this value. Students will use a given data set to calculate the mean daily temperature of a location, as determined by a meteorologist. They will also discuss weather […]

Data Science: Predictive Analysis using Mumbai Temperature Data

Data Science: Predictive Analysis using Mumbai Temperature Data Overview This lesson plan will help you to teach Introductory Predictive Analysis through an Exploratory Data Analysis with  Linear Regression assignment. The lesson plan includes a hands-on computer-based classroom activity to be conducted on a dataset of the annual temperature records of Mumbai – a coastal city […]