Using MATLAB to understand distributions: Pokémon GO part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
This problem set will help teach students how to describe real world distributions. Data science skills that will be covered include measures of central tendency and spread, transformations of distributions, ...

Exploring Fish Diversity in Australia's Marine Ecoregions part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
This activity accomplishes two tasks. First it teaches students about the concepts of species richness and biodiversity using a global data set of marine fish diversity. Second, it teaches them about application ...

Procrustes Skull Analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Procrustes analysis is a form of statistical shape analysis used to analyze the distribution of a set of shapes. The goal of this assignment is to compare different skull types to a reference skull to determine ...

Put out the Fire! Exploring the Effects of Fire-Fighting Foams on Microorganisms using Statistics and Plots part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
Objective Analyze a subset of data from a published research paper using MATLAB. This will focus on data manipulation in MATLAB, including reading in text files, for, if, and while statements, statistics, and plot ...

A Daily Dose of MATLAB for College Freshmen part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
Teaching first-year college students, with my colleague Adam Maloof, as part of a research-oriented "Freshman Seminar" involves teaching students MATLAB -- from scratch to proficiency. Rather than sharing ...

Sensitivity of Parameters in Chaotic Systems part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
In this computer lab activity, students explore and discuss the nature of the sensitivity of parameters in a chaotic system. As a result, they understand the challenges of numerical simulation and/or parameters ...

A lifetime in Computational Science Education part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Essays
Robert R Gotwals, Science, North Carolina School of Science and Math A lifetime in Computational Science EducationRobert R. Gotwals, Jr.The North Carolina School of Science and MathematicsDurham, ...

Teaching Computation Online with MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022
For educators in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geoscience, Mathematics, Physics, and beyond Note: this workshop has already taken place. Workshop presentations and summaries of discussions are available on the ...

Workshop: Teaching Computation in the Sciences Using MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018
October 14-16, 2018 Carleton College, Northfield, MN Note: this workshop has already taken place. Read the workshop synthesis for a summary of key ideas and see the workshop outcomes for materials developed in ...

Creating Modules for Health Sciences in a Precalculus Course part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
Goal: development of a set a modules intended to introduce Data Science in a precalculus course mainly for Health Science.