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CSC8001 Introduction to Data Science and Visualisation Assignment - University of Southern Queensland
Assignment Questions -
Part A - Essay Questions
A2: The Scientific Stance
In Chapter 4 of The Truthful Art, Alberto Cairo discusses the scientific stance. He describes it as '... a way to look at the world, that everybody and anybody, regardless of cultural origins or background can embrace'. Write a short essay (~600 words) discussing how scientific discovery works.
Include in your essay a discussion about the different types of studies and how randomization can be useful to deal with extraneous variables.
Provide appropriate references and examples to support your discussion.
A3: Trend, Seasonality and Noise
In Chapter 8: Revealing Change, Cairo points out three features that you should pay attention to when reading a time series chart: trend, seasonality and noise.
Write a short essay (~600 words) which discusses each of these features and explains why we need to pay attention to them.
Figures and examples should be included where appropriate.
Provide appropriate references and examples (including examples of figure(s)) to support your discussion.
Part B -
Please refer to the other file: S1-2022-CSC8001-A2-PartB.ipynb and submit your solution in a Jupyter Notebook (.ipynb) file.
These three are for Introduction to data science and visualization.
You are not required to call b11_load() function in B13 any more, therefore the marking criterion has been changed to " Use b21_load() function to load data".
(The old criterion was: Uses b11_load() and b21_load() functions to load data).
Attachment:- Data Science and Visualisation Asignment Files.rar