Monday, November 12
1.1

What is data?
* Pieces of Information

How do we collect data?
*Counting something
*Measuring something
*Doing experiments

Who uses data?
*Everyone!
*Mathematicians and Scientists and others collect data.  They have to think hard about what data will give them the information they want.

Why do we need organization of data?
*Data can be meaningless if it is not organized correctly.

Today we are going to look at data about where we like to eat.

1.2
Developing classifications to organize  categorical data
Organizing categorical data in different ways to answer different questions

Categorical Data:  data that is put into categories; usually uses words and not numerals.