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Using Social Explorer to Help Students Gain Insight Justin Joque University of Michigan Library Thursday, July 20, 2017, 3:45pm - 4:45pm time Eastern A project of the University of Michigan School of Information, U-M Library, and U-M School of

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Using Social Explorer to Help Students Gain Insight

Justin Joque University of Michigan Library

Thursday, July 20, 2017, 3:45pm - 4:45pm time Eastern

A project of the University of Michigan School of Information, U-M Library, and U-M School of Education. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services RE 00-00-15-0113-15.

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Sponsors

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Door Prizes

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Door Prize: 6 Months of Easel.ly Pro

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SCECHs

Log in with your full name Attend all of at least 3 live sessions and up to 8 Scan your form and email to contact.data.literacy@umich.edu by Monday, July 24, AND mail it in (mailing is new this year). More information: http://dataliteracy.si.umich.edu/scech

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New in 2017! For those needing certificates …

Follow SCECH instructions (scan and mail). Plus

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Go to http://bit.ly/4t-store

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Pay $25 there no later than Monday, July 24

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http://dataliteracy.si.umich.edu/conference #4tdl

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Join us in the chat! Where are you from?

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Using Social Explorer to Help Students Gain Insight

Justin Joque University of Michigan Library

Thursday, July 20, 2017, 3:45pm - 4:45pm time Eastern

A project of the University of Michigan School of Information, U-M Library, and U-M School of Education. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services RE 00-00-15-0113-15.

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Justin Joque Visualization Librarian joque@umich.edu

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Today, we’ll …

  • 1. Discuss Census Data
  • 2. Use Social Explorer
  • 3. Discuss Possible Lesson Plans
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Why Social Explorer

  • Census Data is very complex but also easy

to understand

  • Students can ask questions about things

they know

  • Students can learn a lot about data
  • Social Explorer makes using and exploring

Census Data easy

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Exploring Census Data

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Census vs Survey

  • Decennial Census every 10 years

○ Short form and long form until 2010

  • American Community Survey

○ replaced the long form ○ available in 1,3,5 year estimates

  • We will be exploring the 2000 Census data
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Thinking about Data

What is a family? What is a household? How are they different?

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Aggregating Data

Mean - sum of all values divided by the number

  • f values

Median - the middle value

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Choosing Data

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Social Explorer

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Game Plan

  • Select a variable
  • Export the data
  • Look at different geographies
  • Change breakpoints
  • Change colors
  • Compare two variables
  • Look at a local area

note: for some browsers you will have to use the html5 link

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In the Classroom

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Explore a Specific Area

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Discuss how we Count Things

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Make Maps!!

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How would you teach these ideas?

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Recap:

1. Census data is confusing but also easy 2. Exploring it can tell us a lot about data 3. Social Explorer is fun

Questions?

Justin Joque joque@umich.edu

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Please take the evaluation (link in chat) to be entered for door prizes!