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Activities | Good prospects ahead for data mining

  • Australian Science Teachers Journal
    • Using spreadsheets in astronomy – patterns and trends in data become more evident when they are graphed (March 1998, pages 52-53).
    • New technology, new questions: Using an Internet database in chemistry – students search Internet databases to ask questions about the periodic table (June 1996, pages 39-42).

  • Education Queensland
    • Looking for patterns – students find interesting patterns in data for further investigation.
    • Datasets – a collection of real data that can be used by students.

  • Megamathematics (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
    • Activities – how algorithms can be used to solve problems concerning the efficient use of resources.

  • The Educator's Reference Desk (USA)

  • University of California, Los Angeles (USA)
    • Stock prices 1 – uses graphs to compare patterns of changes in stock prices over time.

  • Academy Curricular Exchange (Columbia Education Center, USA)

  • Science NetLinks (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
    • What can data tell us? – students analyse data and look for circumstances that might bias the results of a study.

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