using data visualization to start important conversations giving support to your beliefs about your...
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Using Data Visualization to Start Important ConversationsGiving Support to your beliefs about your school.
Goals for today
Try to answer the question, “Why visualize data?”.
Learn where to find our data.
Create useful spreadsheets.
Create pivot tables to reveal the truths in our data.
Create graphs and charts to visualize data.
Create motion charts to enhance visualization
Why visualize data?
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
Using data is about finding connections.
Where can we find our data?
Pearson: SOL Scores
PowerSchool: Academic, Discipline, Attendance, Enrollment, Scheduling, and other data
Other data sources
Pearson: SOL Scores
Pearson: SOL Scores
Pearson: SOL Scores
Pearson: SOL Scores
Spreadsheet has 156 columns
Reduce to just those columns you need: Student Name, Teacher Name, Test Name, Score, Race, Ethnicity, Disability, Gender, Grade
Work in Excel or move to Google Spreadsheets
Pearson: SOL Scores
The “Nested If”
Pearson: SOL Data
Add a “Nested If” to your spreadsheet
Create a Pivot Table
Answer these questions:
-Which teacher had the best pass rate?
-Which gender had the best pass rate?
-Which race had the best pass rate?
Formulas for calculating pass rate
Pass Advanced Percentage:
Pass Advanced#/Total Test Takers#
Pass Percentage
(Pass Advanced# + Pass#)/Total Test Takers#
Adding Charts
PowerSchool
PowerSchool Custom Reports
PowerSchool Custom and SQL Reports
“Letter Grades” report
Attendance
Discipline
Answer these questions:
-Which class had the most Fs 2nd Semester?
-Which month has the most discipline events?
-Which grade level has the most absences?
Creating a motion chart
Time Frame
Catagory
Data Number
Creating a motion chart
Creating a motion chart
Create your own motion chart.
Invent your own data, or pick a student from the EVERYTHING SY1314 Q4 - Sandbox.xlsx file and track their attendance, math avg. and english avg.
