Women In STEM
A biographical film about the lives and careers of Katherine Goble Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson.
What is Hidden Figures?
Statistical method that calculates a line that best fits a set of data points using least squares.
What is linear regression?
The nickname for the Penn State football team.
What is the Nittany Lions?
The collection of rocks between the inner and outer planets in our solar system?
What is the astroid belt?
The things that should appear at the top of every graph.
What is a title?
A former female major world leader with a doctorate in Quantum Chemistry.
Who is Angela Merkel?
The process of achieving a very high accuracy for the training dataset, but poor accuracy in predicting the new data set.
What is overfitting?
Penn State's colors before Blue and White.
What are Pink and Black?
This process is caused by wind, water, and moving/melting ice.
What is erosion?
A type of chart that is commonly used to show how two numeric variables are related.
What is a scatter plot?
First women to receive a Nobel Prize in a science field.
Double Jeopardy: Name the field it was in.
Who is Marie Curie? - Physics
Sampling method that separates a population into homogeneous groups and obtains a random sample from each group.
What is stratified sampling?
How many Penn State campuses are there in total?
What is 24?
Any plant or animal that has spread or been introduced into a new area where they are, or could, cause harm to the environment. Currently, the spotted lantern fly in Pennsylvania is an example of this.
What is an invasive species?
Technique that visualization text data by word frequency.
What is a word cloud?
In 1843, this person published the first algorithm tailored specifically for the implementation on a computer under the initials A.A.L.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
The type of error when you falsely reject the null hypothesis.
What is Type I error?
This former United State's President is the only person to ever have mixed flavors at the Penn State Creamery.
Who is Bill Clinton?
The axon, soma, dendrite, and myelin sheath make up this.
What is a neuron?
This chart is commonly used to show hierarchical or tree-structured data.
What is a Dendrogram?
This person in NASA was the first woman on the moon.
Who is Christina Koch?
This is when there is a correlation between a variable and the error term.
What is endogeneity?
The mascot before the Nittany Lion.
Who is Old Coaly?
Two letters of the alphabet that do no appear on the periodic table.
What are J and Q?
The name of the plot used to check if the residuals in linear regression are normally distributed.
What is a qq-plot?