MAE 2117— Engineering Computations

Fall 2017

Week 7

Overview
We’re on the second module of the course: “Take Off with Stats.”

Find Lesson 1 at: http://go.gwu.edu/engcomp2lesson1

The data for Lesson 1 is at: http://go.gwu.edu/engcomp2data1

Fall Break: No classes on Monday, Oct. 9th. We did hold office hours at the regular time on
Tuesday.

On Wednesday, we started Lesson 2: “Seeing stats in a new light” — http://go.gwu.edu/

engcomp2lesson2 — Still using the data set on craft beers, this lesson teaches you to make
wonderful data visualizations: histograms, box plots, bar plots, bubble charts.

Homework
There was no official homework release this week. Instead, your homework is the following:

1. Finish reading Lesson 2 on your own.

2. Watch the following videos over the weekend:

‣ Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen, TED
Talk (2007) — https://youtu.be/RUwS1uAdUcI

‣ Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats - BBC Four
(2010) — https://youtu.be/jbkSRLYSojo

3. Read over the tutorial “How to make beautiful data visualizations in Python with matplotlib,”
by Randal Olson, to get an idea how much power there is available to you if you continue
your exploration of data visualization with Python:

http://www.randalolson.com/2014/06/28/how-to-make-beautiful-data-visualizations-in-
python-with-matplotlib/

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MAE 2117 Engineering Computations — 2017 week 7