All Aboard
I’ve been thinking about data science for a few years. I don’t remember exactly when it started because it was such a gradual thing. I like math and I like asking questions so, I often search out answers to all kinds of questions like:
- how many mice could fit in my car? (My daughter suggested buying mice to fill up the car and then we could just count them. I said that might be expensive and she said we only needed to buy two: one boy and one girl. She’s a problem solver.)
- do the different octanes of gasoline have a linear relationship compared to cost? compared to..something else? “Wait, I don’t even know anything about what ‘octane’ really means”…which was followed by a long journey on Wikipedia.
- how many sunflower seeds weigh the same as a bluejay? (This got pretty complicated. Turns out, not every sunflower seed weighs the same thing. Same with bluejays.)
- how old would I be if I was 1 trillion seconds old? (I would be dead. By a lot. Interestingly, 1 million seconds is only about 11 and a half days. 1 billion is about 31 years.)
Posted by Liz A. on May 16, 2019