As part of the Leaving Certificate Computer Science curriculum, students have to work on four group projects called Applied Learning Tasks (ALTs).
The 5th years presented their ALT 2 projects, which focused on Analytics. The four projects analysed:
- the mass of meteorites towards earth (NASA)
- the number of teams in all the World Cup Football competitions (FIFA)
- increase in global land temperatures from 1980 - 2015 (Kaggle)
- most common boys baby names in Ireland 2010-2018 (CSO)
Students had to work out an hypothesis on a social issue that they were interested in. They then downloaded a related dataset, read it into a Python file and from there they codeed the following mathematical functions - the mean, the median, the mode and the frequency. With these functions they generated information from their data set to analyse their hypothesis.
Ms O'Kelly