Statistics: Resource Overview

Lecture 2

Recommended Readings:

This lecture will feature tutorials and suggested readings from:[click on picture for link to amazon listing]

The tutorials in this lecture will use IBM SPSS:[click on picture for link]

CLASS ACTIVITY: BOOKMARK

FOLDERFor this activity, please complete the following:

1. Download Google Chrome

2. Log in and/or create your account

3. Watch the tutorial video on how to create a bookmark

folder specifically for this course/topic.

!!!!!!You should bookmark all of your

resources, research, articles, tutorials, videos.

!!!!!!

Where are you looking?• ESPN?• Statistica?• Basketball reference? • Stats LLC?• Elias?• Fivethirtyeight.com?

Bookmark Activity

For your sport, create five new bookmarks based around data retrieval.

Where can you go consistently to find statistics and data?

Class Activity: Sport-Specific List

Baseball/Softball:

Basketball:Basketball ReferenceNylon CalculusNBA.com/stats

Football:NFL.com/statsProFootball ReferenceCollege Football Reference

Hockey:

Soccer:

Golf:

Track/Running:Sport-Reference- Olympics

STATCREW

Where’s data?• Now find places to get data.

CSV Files! SQL files, too. Try those!

Class Activity:How will you use statistics?

Take a few minutes to gather your resources, think critically, and come up with two or three ways you anticipate using statistics and data in your future career.

Complete Chapter 3, 4, and 5

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