The idea that teams play better at home is one of the most common sports fan axioms out there - but how do the observations of fans hold up to the data?
How do flatwing males find mates without song? In what ways do their methods differ from those used by males that can produce song?
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Why do most male crickets on Kauai have flat wings? Could parasitoid flies have contributed to the loss of song for male crickets?
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How does the theory of island biogeography help explain the distribution of wildlife in the Cleveland Metroparks?
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How does gene expression differ between human fibroblasts and induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS)?
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Is the length of the Bayfield harbor ice season changing over time?
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What effect does the presence of a wasp have on blow fly oviposition? Do blow flies use either smell or visual clues to detect wasps?
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Make sense of data trends by digging into the happenings and history behind the numbers . Students interpret graphs to suggest why certain Googlesearches (and likely purchases) spike around Halloween and other times.
Using Wisconsin Fast Plants, we can see in the impacts of genetic inheritance through artificial selection in a short period of time.
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Use data science to analyze the data from FiveThirtyEight.com and draw your own conclusions about who is the most valuable player
Interpret authentic lab data on material characteristics and make recommendations for future research on superconductors
Examining freezing points of solutions by exploring data on how to create the ideal ice cream!
Wisdom of the crowd has been studied many times and has been shown to be well supported. People have noted that the estimates of individuals tend to vary around the true value of the quantity, but that average guess tends to be very close to the true mean when the crowd is sufficiently large. This has some important implications for group decision making. Do we come to better conclusions when we collect a diversity of opinions?
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Investigate how friction affects motion through stacked graphs and this shuffleboard scenario.
With the data from many countries combined we can ask questions about the general relationship between health care spending and the important health care outcome of child mortality rate.
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Use stacked graphs to investigate distance, velocity, and acceleration, comparing across two tosses.
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Do female crickets respond to a newly evolved purring song as a
mating signal? Do they prefer the typical song or the purring song?
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