StatiSticS and data comprehenSion Jo AngelA oehrli Data Geek data geek
Ch AP Ter 1 Thinking About Statistics and Math You have probably heard the terms statistics and data But what do they mean Data is simply bits of information often numbers Each piece of data is known as a data point Statistics are specific numbers calculated from collections of data For example a player’s batting average a statistic is calculated by dividing his number of hits by the total number of times he went up to bat Similarly each home run is one data point The corresponding statistic is the total sum of home runs in the season or in a player’s career Making sense of data and statistics can be confusing at first You might feel like you are looking at a sea of numbers But we can learn to read and understand those numbers as well as we read words 4 21st century skills library
If you follow sports you probably already know something about statistics 5 5 Data Geek
