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MARIST FACTS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW
PRIESTLEY POTPOURRI
100

A variable with values like "Green", "Blue", "Red" is called this.

What is Categorical?  or What is Nominal?

100

This is the year the Titanic sank.

What is 1912?

100

This is the most important piece of information that is always included in a Pie Chart...that is not included in a Bar Chart.

What is Percent?

100

In R, this is the function to see your data - as if it was an Excel Spreadsheet.

What is "View"?

100

This is the year girls first entered Marist.

What is 1976?

100

This is the year I graduated from Marist

What is 1985?

200

The best graphic to display the shape of a continuous variable is this.

What is a Histogram?

200

This is the overall survival rate of passengers on the Titanic (from our dataset).  Within 5%

What is 38%? (33% - 43%)

200

This is the function we use to determine the mean of a variable.

What is "AVERAGE"?

200

In R, we type this character to annotate our code.

What is "#"?

200

The letters "A" and "M" on the Marist Crest mean this.

What is...the AM monogram, borrowed from the crest of the Society of Mary, stands for Ave Maria (Hail, Mary).

200

This is the female cartoon character who frequently shows up in your notes... 

Who is Edna Mode:

300

The best graphic to display a single categorical variable.

What is a bar chart?

300

From our data, this is the gender and passenger class that had the highest survival rate.

What are women in First Class?

300

This is the function that we can use instead of an IF statement if we have more than 3 labels.

What is a VLOOKUP function?

300







In R, this is the value returned by the following code (PEDMAS):

a<- 3+4

b<- 10*2

c<- 12/4

a+b*c

What is 67?

(20*3) + 7

300

The number of football state championships won by Marist teams (if you can name all years, you can double your money).  

What is 3? - 1989, 2003, and 2020.

300

This is the font that I use for all of my notes - across all classes.

What is "Georgia"?

400

This is the best graphic to display the relationship between two categorical (or ordinal) variables.

What is a 100% stacked bar chart.

400

In the Titanic Dataset, Passenger Class is an example of this kind of variable.

What is ordinal?

400

This is symbol used in EXCEL to "nail down" a cell reference - to ensure that the reference does not change as you copy logic down (or across). 

What is a "$"?

400

In R, this is the name of the "file" where our code exists...it is also the name of the window in R where we write our code.

What is a "script"?

400

This is the year Marist School in Atlanta was founded (downtown).

What is 1901?

400

This is the name of one of the two characters from Game of Thrones who showed up in the Intro slides.

Who are Daenerys Targaryan and Tyrion Lannister?

 

500

This is the graphic we use to assess the relationship between two continuous variables.

What is a scatterplot?

500

This is the best graphic to assess the relationship between Passenger Class and Survival in the Titanic Dataset.

What is a 100% Stacked Bar Chart?

500

This is third (last) piece of information that you need to include in an IF statement.

What is "value if false"?

500

This is the function we type in R to see the first 6 observations in the data frame.

What is "head"?

500






This is the oldest active teacher who is also a graduate of Marist.

Who is Mike Coveny ('81)?

FYI - 

Dan Perez ('84)

David Negus ('84)

Jennifer Priestley ('85)

500

This is the number of points you will earn for a late assignment in Business Analytics.

What is 0?