Data Visualization

1. What did you think of the video?  What was striking?  Interesting? Eye-opening?  What type of impact did this video have on you? I liked the video because it helped me to see the importance of data and getting it out there in a way that is capturing and effective. First of all he gave a lot of neat examples of data and presented it in some very interesting ways. I like the example of fears and how it showed which ones were most feared and which ones were least feared. It was interesting, captivating and also kind of humorous.
2. How did this video affect you as a learner?  How did this video affect you as a teacher? It helped me to realize that I am a very visual learner and I retain information better by visualization. I also think that if I am ever teaching that I will take advantage of the resources in order for data to have more of an impact of students.
3. We are trying to re-hone our view of science towards story-telling, a concept aimed at “softening” and making the process of science more accessible.  How does story-telling hook into “The Beauty of Data Visualization”?  Can you give some specific examples of how his use of visualization enhances story-telling using data? Story telling is an effective way of hooking people into the beauty of data visualization simply because it engages the listener that much more. Rather than just giving the learner a picture with data on it, it helps to explain that data in a way that incorporates real life and situations that anyone can relate to. For example when he talked about the video game fears during the month of April. He doesn't just say that fears are higher during that month, but he lets us know why. 
4. This is a bit of a jump – can you see connections between his work and our very simple investigations on burning candles?  Think about how you presented your information and some of the presentations that other people made. I can see a connection because for example our group used videos pictures and tables to present the data that resulted in our project. I don't thik that the data would have impacted anyone nearly as much if we hadn't included those things and I think it is the same for the other groups.

Jordan, Reina and Sabrina... "UP" The Remake

Okay.... so today we had some bigger balloons and we started by tying them to a lighter house made from card stock...

So... That was kind of lame.... So we then tied a ton more balloons to the Actual heavier cardboard house... 30 to be exact. The problem with this was that we ran out of helium and the house was too heavy to be lifted... just slightly. So we had to cut the bottom of the roof out and also the bottom of the house.... IT WORKED!!!!

We really wanted to see how high it would go and also see how it would handle outside in the breeze... so.... we tried it....