{"id":154,"date":"2013-04-08T11:36:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T11:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/?p=154"},"modified":"2013-04-08T11:36:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T11:36:18","slug":"passion-driven-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/2013\/04\/08\/passion-driven-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion Driven Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a background in quantitative research and a bent towards applied statistical work, I felt compelled to take Lisa Dierker&#8217;s <a title=\"Passion Driven Statistics\" href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/course\/pdstatistics\">Passion Driven Statistics<\/a>. \u00a0This course is offered on Wesleyan&#8217;s campus and has been modified for an online environment. \u00a0Everything kicked off on March 25th and thus far, I have watched the first week of lectures and explored some of the course materials.<\/p>\n<p>The course has several moving parts. \u00a0There are video lectures which consist of narrated\u00a0powerpoint slides and guided tutorials to set up statistical software and a tumblr.com account. \u00a0The lectures are short videos, making them easy to watch. \u00a0However, they&#8217;ve required full attention rather than listening on the go. \u00a0I am already familiar with two statistical software packages and this MOOC teaches stats using a third. \u00a0While I was motivated to take the class so I could gain some familiarity with this other software package, I&#8217;ve found the setup to be slightly frustrating because I need a PC machine to run everything.<\/p>\n<p>Having taken multiple statistics classes in my graduate training, I am really impressed with Dierker&#8217;s ability to make statistics seem less intimidating. \u00a0I am currently teaching some numbers-phobic students and they complain about any heavily quantitative readings we&#8217;ve had in class. \u00a0I think this MOOC will help me to guide students who would otherwise bristle at quantitative research and give them some tools to consume it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s technically week 3 of the course and I am still working through week 2 lectures. \u00a0I do appreciate how quickly Dierker pushes students to work with data without any exposure to statistical concepts. \u00a0I will report back after I get into the heavy-hitting statistics this week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a background in quantitative research and a bent towards applied statistical work, I felt compelled to take Lisa Dierker&#8217;s Passion Driven Statistics. \u00a0This course is offered on Wesleyan&#8217;s campus and has been modified for an online environment. \u00a0Everything kicked off on March 25th and thus far, I have watched the first week of lectures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/itec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}