Why do we continue to struggle with data? With all the powerful tools we have in processing power, data tools, and computer programming, we still search for some elusive truth to pervasive problems. AI hallucinates, 'good data' that we started with is suddenly unintelligible, systems that should talk to each other seamlessly continually ......
Principles and Practices to Support Historical Thinking and Civic Engagement
We are surrounded by data and data visualizations in our everyday lives. To help ensure that students can critically evaluate data-and use it to promote social justice-this book outlines principles and practices for teaching data literacy as part of social studies education. The author shows how social studies content and skills can enhance both ......
Principles and Practices to Support Historical Thinking and Civic Engagement
We are surrounded by data and data visualizations in our everyday lives. To help ensure that students can critically evaluate data-and use it to promote social justice-this book outlines principles and practices for teaching data literacy as part of social studies education. The author shows how social studies content and skills can enhance both ......
The Inside Story of Y2K Panic and the Greatest Cooperative Effort Ever
The new millennium. The Year 2000. Beyond Mayan prophecies, a more immediate danger loomed: Two-digit year date fields had been used by software programmers to conserve expensive computer storage space for decades. As a consequence, legacy systems reading "00" on January 1, 2000 would most probably interpret the date as 1900. ......
IT for Business: A Student's Guide to the Technology of Business provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the role and application of information technology in the business world. Each chapter in the book focuses on a different aspect of IT as it relates to business. The opening chapter sets the stage by discussing the importance of ......
An Active and Guided Inquiry Learning Approach to Enhance ComputationalThinking
Meticulously crafted to align with the ACM/IEEE-CS/AAAI Computer Science CS2023 curricular guidelines, Fundamentals in Computer Programming Workbook: An Active and Guide Inquiry Learning Approach to Enhance Computational Thinking empowers students to master the art of programming. Structured to facilitate both individual and collaborative ......
IT for Business: A Student's Guide to the Technology of Business provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the role and application of information technology in the business world. Each chapter in the book focuses on a different aspect of IT as it relates to business. The opening chapter sets the stage by discussing the importance of ......
As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinner-and that fake content has undeniable real-world consequences. A History of Fake Things on the Internet takes the long view of how advances in technology brought us to the point where ......
Written for students who have had little to no experience in computer programming, A Comprehensive Introduction to Python: From the Basics to Data Analytics covers not only the syntax and structure of the Python programming language but fundamental computer programming concepts that are the same across all programming languages. It also prepares ......