{"id":840,"date":"2008-04-16T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/16\/data-mining\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T02:46:00","slug":"data-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/16\/data-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Data mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m playing around with <a href=\"http:\/\/ilrc.ode.state.oh.us\/Downloads.asp\">Ohio&#8217;s data on school performance and lots of variables<\/a> to see if there are any correlations for my statistics class&#8217;s final project. And to my (pleasant?) surprise I found out that there is correlation between teacher salary and the school&#8217;s performance indicator (a number the state comes up with for each school based on several qualifying factors). And it&#8217;s a positive correlation. OK, so it&#8217;s not as strong of a correlation as economic advantage or on percentage of white students (since standardized tests are usually written with the middle\/upper class white student) but it&#8217;s statistically significant. So yeah, pay me more and my school will do better! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p> <lj-cut text=\"Here's the graph!\">Here&#8217;s the graph: <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/trinalin\/pic\/000ay6g9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/trinalin\/pic\/000ay6g9\" width=500 height=412 title=\"Graph of school performance indicator versus teacher salary.\" ><\/a><br \/> Graphs are cool! I like graphs!<\/div>\n<p><\/lj-cut><\/p>\n<p> OK, back to number crunching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m playing around with Ohio&#8217;s data on school performance and lots of variables to see if there are any correlations for my statistics class&#8217;s final project. And to my (pleasant?) surprise I found out that there is correlation between teacher salary and the school&#8217;s performance indicator (a number the state comes up with for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livejournal","tag-masters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}