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1. DCS 105 Calling Bull F24 Schedule

   10 Jun 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Carrie Diaz Eaton¹, Sadie Kriegler

   Unity College

   Schedule overview for Bates College Course DCS 105 Calling Bull

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4848/?v=1

2. Prosecutor’s Fallacy and Mammograms Case Study

   09 Jun 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Carrie Diaz Eaton¹, Sadie Kriegler

   Unity College

   An introduction to Prosecutor’s Fallacy, and False Positives/Negatives. By Dr. Diaz Eaton, Bates College, for use in DCS 105A, and inspired by Calling Bull & Calculated Risks.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4847/?v=1

3. Calling Bullshit DCS 105 Bates College Figure of the Day

   29 May 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Carrie Diaz Eaton¹, Sadie Kriegler

   Bates College and RIOS Institute

   Students use their number sense to make observations and come up with reasonable guesses or explanations for the patterns shown.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4792/?v=1

4. Calling Bullshit DCS 105 Bates College Data Visualization Activity Slides

   29 May 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Carrie Diaz Eaton¹, Sadie Kriegler

   Unity College

   This is a slide deck containing all in-class data visualization activity slides for the course DCS 105 - Calling Bullshit at Bates College.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4810/?v=1

5. Pennies to The Moon Data Byte Series

   09 May 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Carrie Diaz Eaton¹, Sadie Kriegler

   Unity College

   This series of Rbyte activities explores the concept of debunking using Fermi Estimation, R, and ChatGPT.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4786/?v=1

6. ELE Calling Bull slides Feb 2024

   09 Feb 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Carrie Diaz Eaton

   Bates College and RIOS Institute

   These are the slides for a talk given by Dr. Carrie Diaz Eaton about teaching Calling Bull. The talk was hosted by Every Learner Everywhere on February 9, 2024.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4636/?v=1

7. Teaching Data Viz and Communication as an Undergraduate Biology Course: Syllabus and Resources

   23 Jun 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Angie Hilliker¹, Kristine Grayson¹

   University of Richmond

   Teaching materials co-developed for a new upper-level undergraduate biology course to teach data exploration and communication without requiring previous coding experience.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2450/?v=1

8. Teaching Data Viz and Communication as an Undergraduate Biology Course: Assignments and Projects

   23 Jun 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kristine Grayson¹, Angie Hilliker¹

   University of Richmond

   Teaching materials co-developed for a new upper-level undergraduate biology course to teach data exploration and communication without requiring previous coding experience.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2452/?v=1

9. Final Project for Calling Bull

   11 Jun 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Carrie Diaz Eaton

   Bates College

   This is the final project for the calling bull course & it is to find 3 pieces of misinformation/BS and debunk them. They have to re-do at least one visualization, use R in at least one debunking,...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2431/?v=1

10. Case Study — The Gender gap in 100-meter dash times

    11 Jun 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Carrie Diaz Eaton

    Bates College

    In 2004, the journal Nature published a short tongue-in-cheek paper by Tatem and colleagues meant to critique common abuses in linear modeling while fitting data from the Olympic gold medal times...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2430/?v=1

11. Case Study - Storks vs Babies

    11 Nov 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Carrie Diaz Eaton

    Bates College and QUBES

    This is a R project based on the Robert Matthews paper Storks vs Babies. The idea is to replicate the results of the paper, learn a bit about R for linear fits and graphing and explore correlation...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2123/?v=1

12. Calling Bull Case Study — 99.9% Caffeine-free with R

    11 Nov 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Carrie Diaz Eaton¹, Carl Bergstrom², Jevin West²

    1. Bates College and QUBES 2. University of Washington

    This is an adaptation of Calling Bull's Case Study on how caffeine free is hot chocolate versus coffee in order to make it into a student project that uses R.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2122/?v=1

13. Calling Bull in an Age of Big Data with R

    29 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Carrie Diaz Eaton

    Bates College and RIOS Institute

    Use the calling bull course to introduce students to data, ethics, visualization, and R.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1150/?v=2

14. Calling Bull in an Age of Big Data with R

    26 Apr 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Carrie Diaz Eaton

    Bates College and RIOS Institute

    Use the calling bull course to introduce students to data, ethics, visualization, and R.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1150/?v=1

15. Calling Bull: Data Reasoning in a Digital World

    26 Apr 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Carl Bergstrom¹, Jevin West¹

    University of Washington

    "So, the aim of this course is to help students navigate the bullshit-rich modern environment by identifying bull seeing through it, and combating it with effective analysis and argument."

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1149/?v=1