Wrap up Dates + Qualitative Data
Lecture 18
NC State University
ST 295 - Spring 2025
2025-03-18
Welcome back :)
Announcements
We invite you to join us for the March Professional Development Workshop, featuring a panel discussion: “Data Science Skills: What’s Marketable + How to Market Them”
📅 Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2025
⏰ Time: 4:00 – 5:30 PM
📍 Location: 5104 SAS Hall Commons
This session will feature insights from faculty members in our department:
– Dr. Elijah Meyer
– Dr. Jonathan Duggins
– Dr. Emily Griffith
Announcements
– Statistics Experience is live!
– Homework will be released tonight (due Monday at 11:59pm)
– Quiz released Thursday (due Monday at 11:59pm)
– Project talk
Project
Ask a question you’re curious about and answer it with a dataset of your choice. This is your project in a nutshell.
Project
– You will work in groups of 2
> If you have a preference on who to work with, please tell me by 5:00pm today– All project components will be turned in via GitHub
> We will demonstrate this Thursday when groups are formed
Timeline
Groups will be formed this afternoon
Questions?
We will talk more plus walk through your project repo on Thursday
Warm up
What does geom_histogram() do….
Warm up: Plot recreate
What do we noitce? What do we know how to do/what will we use to recreate this plot?
Qualitative Data
What’s the difference between qualitative and quantitative data analysis?
The difference
Qualitative data are data representing information and concepts that are not represented by numbers
Quantitative data analysis involves using statistical techniques to analyze numerical data
Qualitative research
Mixed Methods
Exploratory methods in qualititative research
Often look at word counts / groups of words used.
– We are going to use methods we already know/learn new functions to explore text data
– Word clouds
Check here for a workshop on qual analysis in R. This is not an expectation for ST 295.
Friends: Exploring Text Data
