#Synthesis 6 This article lays the foundation for the scholarly material which will prove useful in the presentation of my final project for DCS 204 Data Cultures. Throughout the module, we have been presented with several concepts and methodologies when it comes to the general perceptions and preconceptions about data, its nature, its manipulation, and …
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Synthesis #5
This week, we learn to implement and interpret chi-square tests, t-tests and regressions in R. Below is an example of the t-test we performed for this week. First, we loaded the data set which consisted of donors and information about them. We then subsetted the donors data frame into two vectors – one called cumberland_donoations_amt …
Synthesis #4
More than a century and a half ago, Bates College was birthed from the will and devotion of people who deemed that a college in Lewiston-Auburn would greatly benefit the advancement of society. It is quite fascinating, when you come to think of it, that the construction of a college be the intersection between people’s …
Synthesis #3
“The archive conceals, distorts and silences as much as it reveals…” This week I learned to apply exploratory data analysis in my understanding of the course material. More specifically, I learned to manipulate data frames and 2D data structures and to subset data frames. We also learned about how to produce and read scatterplots to …
Synthesis #2
100,104.96… , 4171.04…. , 11.4… This week, I learned about indexing, subsetting and logical operators in R, and how to implement all of these features. I also learned how to represent statistical data on R using visualizations such as histograms. It goes without saying that R is great for calculating statistical concepts such as the …
Synthesis #1 – Mathieu Moutou
One of the reasons why I applied to Bates was because of the emphasis that the college lays on the ‘abolitionist’ part of their presentation to the world. Coming from Mauritius, a country in which slavery is still fairly recent in the minds of its people, I greatly appreciated the idea of coming to an …
The Taylor Polynomial of Human Understanding
This article draws parallels between the Taylor polynomial we first encountered in Calculus I and the psychology and philosophy of human understanding. By referring to the German philosopher Goethe and his perspective on human interactions, we will support some of his claims.
MAHLER’S WELCOME TO DCS204
Hello. This is Mathieu Moutou. I am an international student from Mauritius, and I’m a junior majoring in Mathematics and Music.
