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Video Links

Video 1: Curly Fries Predict Intelligence?

Description: This 9:55 TED Talk presents data about the things people “Like” on Facebook and what can be predicted from those likes. This could spur some very interesting discussion about what data can be analyzed and what it can tell researchers.

Video 2: Dancing Statistics

Description: This 4:11 video helps you visualize the concept of correlation through dance. They work through zero-order correlations, negative correlations, positive correlations, and the connection between correlation and causality.

Video 3: Real Maps and Ridiculous Correlations

Description: This 2:20 video discusses the misinterpretation of correlational data

Video 4: Working through a Spearman’s Rank-Order Correlation

Description: This 6:57 video works through a Spearman rank-order correlation.