Monday, August 15, 2011

CED0540 week 5 – Google Trends and Statistics Sites

This week we looked at Google Trends.  Google Trends is a cool way to quickly do statistical comparisons.  Our group compared NFL, NHL, and NBA.  This was a fun way to look at data.  Google Trends creates charts with the data, making it user friendly.

The other assignment was to compare statistical websites.  Our group chose to look up diabetes.  We compared two sites and it was amazing to me how different the data was presented.  One site was great for engineers or statistical people, however, the other site contains the same information but in a much better format.  I really like the CDC Center for Disease and Prevention.  I can find so many uses for this site.  It lists the information, and then there are so many different ways to narrow the results.  It also showed confidence level and standard deviation on some of the charts.  I found myself spending a lot of time on this site.

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