Advanced Synthesis
📋 What it is
The capstone: take a question, gather and clean data, analyze it, and tell an honest story with the right chart.
🗣️ Coach says
This is the whole data cycle in one move: ASK a good question → COLLECT and CLEAN data → ANALYZE for patterns → COMMUNICATE honestly with the right chart. Synthesis is running the full loop and choosing the right tool at each step.
🧠 Memory hook
The data cycle: ASK → COLLECT/CLEAN → ANALYZE → COMMUNICATE. Run the loop, pick the right tool each step.
😂 Giggle
What do you call a chart that tells jokes?
A fun-nel plot!
😲 Whoa!
Every data science project — from a school survey to a space mission — follows this same ask-clean-analyze-communicate cycle.
✅ Quick check: A full data project starts with which step?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
Asking a good (statistical) question — everything else builds on it.
The question frames what data to collect and how to analyze it.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Run a mini-project: ask one question, collect 10 data points, clean them, find one pattern, pick a chart.