Day 11, Mat115H

• Announcements:

• Today we continue working on our "destination" for this course.

• We still have some presentations before us, and we'll hear from at least one group today (Betsy and Cassidy). We'll hear from Kara's group on Monday. And I'm not sure about Marisa and Alli's group....
  • Psychology and the hope metric (see Prof. Rachel Clark) -- Kara (and Kensey and Haley)
  • Income inequality -- Marisa and Alli
  • Photography -- Betsy and Cassidy
  • Done: History -- Emily and Sandra
  • Done: Public art and Little Free Libraries -- Melody, Grace, and Robin

  For your presentations I had asked you to focus on these issues:

  1. What did they do (or what are they doing): describe successes and failures
  2. What impact will/did their intervention have/had on 505?
  3. What can we learn from their project?
  4. What advice might they give us as we set off on our own project?

• Your assignment for today was to provide a written (typed) response (at least two pages) of your own to these questions:
  • How are people in Newport's Westside hurting or healthy?
  • How can we measure the hurt or health?
  • How can we compare Newport's Westside to other areas?

• So let's talk about what you concluded. I'll tell you that I've arrived at three or four mathematical/statistical topics for the rest of our course, but I'm particularly looking for your ideas, which I will attempt to include as we're able.

Some Links:

• A GoogleMaps app provided by Doug Hume of Sociology.
• A cool tool to allow you to visualize the neighborhood on several census variables by census tract.
  Here's what may be a commercial version of the same thing? It's got a little more resolution. I'm checking with our library to see if we can have the professional access.
• Tract 505 ACS 2006-2010 census Profiles
• Map showing Census Tract 505
• Google Earth map of the tracts of Kentucky (505 is number 27302)
• What's the Matter With Eastern Kentucky?