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Data Description Exercise

This document provides instructions for a data description exercise to be completed individually by students in a research seminar class. It asks students to analyze and visualize various data sets related to forest area by country. Students are to draw expected distributions, calculate summary statistics, and create histograms and bar charts to explore the data. They are to paste their analyses and visualizations into a Word document to submit for the assignment.

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Data Description Exercise

This document provides instructions for a data description exercise to be completed individually by students in a research seminar class. It asks students to analyze and visualize various data sets related to forest area by country. Students are to draw expected distributions, calculate summary statistics, and create histograms and bar charts to explore the data. They are to paste their analyses and visualizations into a Word document to submit for the assignment.

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Research Seminar 2019-2

Data Description Exercise


(Due Monday, September 23)

Instructions: Do this exercise by yourself; do not share your answers with other students electronically.
You do not need to print this sheet. Part I can be handwritten and Part II should be completed using a
computer and printed. Staple the two parts or use the same piece of paper. The assignment will be
turned in at the beginning of class.

Part I. For the following random variables, think about the possible values and how their frequencies
might be distributed in a histogram. For each variable, make a drawing of the expected distribution.
(Actual data is not necessary, just make an educated guess.) Label key values on the X axis. Then, for
each distribution, describe it; for example, normal, skewed, uniform, or multimodal.

1. How many cats people own.

2. Length of hair of Universidad del Rosario students.

3. Ages of Universidad del Rosario students.

Part II. Use the “Descriptive Data” Excel file (posted on e-aulas) for each of the following questions. You
may need to “clean” the data before doing some of these exercises, by replacing placeholders for
missing data with blank cells.

4. Find and report the mean, median, mode, and standard deviation of the variable “Forest Area.”

5. Which country has the highest forest area (as a % of land area)? Which countries have the lowest
forest area?

6. Create a histogram of “Forest Area,” using a bin size of 5 (going from 5-100). Format the histogram so
the bars are touching. Make any other changes that will help it look better. Change the title to “[Your
name]’s Forest Area Histogram” (with your name, instead of “[Your name]”). Copy and paste it into a
Word document.

7. Create a second histogram of “Forest Area,” using a bin size of 1 (going from 1-100). Format the
histogram so the bars are touching and make any other changes that are helpful. Change the title to
“[Your name]’s Forest Area Histogram #2” (with your name, instead of “[Your name]”). Copy and paste it
into your Word document.

8. Create a bar chart of “Forest Coverage Level” by first generating a count table. Title the chart “[Your
name]’s Forest Coverage Bar Chart” and choose the design you like best using the options in Excel. Copy
and paste it into your Word document.

Extra credit: Which two countries lost the most forest area coverage between 2006 and 2016 (in
percentage points)? Which country gained the most forest area (in percentage points)? Briefly explain
how you calculated this.

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