Overview
This week we will revisit the learning goals for the class. For a start, we will do a few exercises that will demonstrate some of your progress from the first week of the course: how to think clearly and methodically (this is the essence of your abstract writing); how to ask a specific form of “what” or “why” question that actually garners the precise information for which you seek; and how to define a trend in a data set. We will also discuss how models are used to make sense of data sets and also what models are not used for. This module always has some remarkable surprises.