Women In STEM
General Statistics
Penn State
Science
Data Visualization
100

A biographical film about the lives and careers of Katherine Goble Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson.


What is Hidden Figures?

100

Statistical method that calculates a line that best fits a set of data points using least squares.

What is linear regression?

100

The nickname for the Penn State football team.

What is the Nittany Lions?

100

The collection of rocks between the inner and outer planets in our solar system?

What is the astroid belt?

100

The things that should appear at the top of every graph.

What is a title?

200

A former female major world leader with a doctorate in Quantum Chemistry.

Who is Angela Merkel?

200

The process of achieving a very high accuracy for the training dataset, but poor accuracy in predicting the new data set.

What is overfitting?

200

Penn State's colors before Blue and White.

What are Pink and Black?

200

This process is caused by wind, water, and moving/melting ice.

What is erosion?

200

A type of chart that is commonly used to show how two numeric variables are related.

What is a scatter plot?

300

First women to receive a Nobel Prize in a science field.

Double Jeopardy: Name the field it was in. 

Who is Marie Curie? - Physics

300

Sampling method that separates a population into homogeneous groups and obtains a random sample from each group.

What is stratified sampling?

300

How many Penn State campuses are there in total?

What is 24?

300

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?

300

Technique that visualization text data by word frequency.

What is a word cloud?

400

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?

400

The type of error when you falsely reject the null hypothesis.

What is Type I error?

400

This former United State's President is the only person to ever have mixed flavors at the Penn State Creamery.

Who is Bill Clinton?

400

The axon, soma, dendrite, and myelin sheath make up this. 

What is a neuron?

400

This chart is commonly used to show hierarchical or tree-structured data.

What is a Dendrogram?

500

This person in NASA was the first woman on the moon. 

Who is Christina Koch? 

500

This is when there is a correlation between a variable and the error term.

What is endogeneity? 

500

The mascot before the Nittany Lion.

Who is Old Coaly?

500

Two letters of the alphabet that do no appear on the periodic table.

What are J and Q?

500

The name of the plot used to check if the residuals in linear regression are normally distributed.

What is a qq-plot?