What’s in a Wordle?

Provost Learning Space - DH Project

Dr. Marina Nechayeva, MEC

Course: Intro to Statistics - Hybrid

Enrollment: 19.  Attending: 17.  Participated: 14

Issue: A large number of students that enroll in Hybrid courses ‘do not belong”.

Idea: Assignments such as this one can be used to diagnose the extent to which a student will thrive in a hybrid (statistics) course. For example, such an assignment  may be a component of the (online) screening given to  students  prior to granting permission to enroll in a hybrid section.

Rational: To complete this assignment a student needs to possess a degree of study, communication, quantitative reasoning and technological skills.

Does data support this? Yes, BIG time!

  Project Outline (as provided to students)

·         Find online (or elsewhere) the complete lyrics of your favorite song (in any western language) and save these in a plain text file format. Make sure to have all repetitions (of chorus etc) explicitly typed.  Using Firefox or Safary browsers, go to the website www.wordle.net and follow instructions to create a Wordle of you favorite song. Save the image of your Wordle (for example, as a screenshot) on your computer.  

·         Post the image of your Wordle on Piazza (Q&A) page.

·         Email the lirics and your wordle image to mnechayeva@ lagcc.cuny.edu together with an answer to the following question "What statistical information about the lyrics of your favorite song is visualized by the Wordle, in what way?"

Demo:

www.piazza.com

E

It visualized the true meaning of the lyrics by its variation of color.

V

The different colors of the words helps to organized them. The visualizations provided on Many Eyes range from the ordinary to the experimental. therefore base in the information obtained we can create a data format and style.

A

I can see this Wordle as a

continuous or a discreet problem

J Answer: The entire song/Lyrics created by wordle contains 70 words, 30 Red, 23 Green, 17 Blue.

a) What is the probability that the two randomly selected words are red? 0.180

b) What is the probability that the first word selected is Red and and the second Green? 0.143

c) What is the probability that the first word selected is Green and the second Red? 0.143

d) What is the probability that one word is Red and the other Green? 0.286

D

Wordle displays the frequency of each word in the song I chose by rap

artist - Drake in his number one billboard single "Hold on we're going

home." From the chart we can see that he used the words "I", "home",

"going" and "you" numerous times throughout the song.

(link to lyrics -

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/drake/holdonweregoinghome.html)

C

QUESTION: This Wordle is an example of a word- frequency graph.

Statically, the words in the lyrics that are repeated the most for example, the song is called "Enjoy the Ride", the chorus' repeats enjoy the ride several times, the words are bigger and the words that are repeated few times are much smaller.

A

Question: the statistical information about the lyrics of my favorite song

is visualized by Wordle in the way that how ever many times a certain word

is said in the song affects how big the word will come out in the Wordle

image. if the word is mentioned a lot in the song, then it will be larger

then the other words, and if a word is barely mentioned in the song then it

will be smaller then the rest of the words on the Wordle image.

A

Word wordle's are a way to see a large text. It is a way to see the frequency of words within the text.The statistical information my wordle shows me is the words that are bigger then the others are the ones that are the most repeated within the song.

S

 A: The size of the words are based on their frequency of appearing in the lyrics, the higher frequency the word repeated, the bigger the word appears in the picture

J

Answer:  Wordle counts the frequency of words provided (song lyrics) and scrambles them into an artistic picture. As the frequency of a word increases, so does the size of the word. ​

	date	Piazza post	format	question	score	HW completed (out of 6)	Average quiz score	adjusted
1	5/2	1=Image (upside down)	N(note)	0=none	1.5	0	0	0
2	5/2	2=image	Q(question)	0=wrong	2	4	50	33
3	5/2	3=image+help	Q	2=right, but not using terminology	5	6	89	89
4	5/2	1=Png File link	Q	1=off, but creative	2	6	76	76
5	5/3 and 6	1=Image sm And URL	Q	1=right, not developed	2	4	51	34
6	5/4	2=image	N	2=right, but not using terminology	4.5	6	79	79
7	5/4	2=image	N	3	5.5	5	90	75
8	5/5	1=Image sm	Q	0=wrong	1	4	63	42
9	5/5	2=image	Q	3	5	6	94	94
10	5/5	1=Jpg          File link	Q	0=NA	1	5	83	69
11	5/6	1=Jpg          File link	Q	3	4	6	74	74
12	5/6	2=Image	FN                 (follow up)	2=right, not fully developed	4.5	NA	NA	0
13	5/6	0=URL	Q	0=wrong	0	0	0	0
14	5/6	0=URL	Q	0=none	0	5	55	46
15	_				0	4	73	49
16	_				0	3	73	37
17	_				0	6	80	80

                                                                

Conclusion: A degree to which a student has succeded with the wordle assignment (as judged by rubrics) is strongly predictive of his/her success in a hybrid statistics course (measured in terms of assignment completion and average score by week 8 of the cource).

Correlation  between score on a wordle assignment

 

 

 

 

		WORDLE	AVGGRADE
WORDLE	Pearson Correlation	1	.732(**)
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.	.004
	N	13	13
AVGGRADE	Pearson Correlation	.732(**)	1
	Sig. (2-tailed)	.004	.
	N	13	13

**  Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

Great Side effects!!!

Increased engagement in online participation in weeks following the administering of the assignment.

Further Analyses:

It appears that all 4 skill types (study, communication, QR and tech) are strongly related!

Proposal:

Develop an online diagnostic tool for students interested in taking Hybrid

 Develop and utilize assignments such as this one to screen and advise students (not just in Statistics courses, but all courses tapping into QR, Critical Thinking and problem solving)