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Last lecture d3.js

A small example using D3 to visualise the Scoville scale of how spicy differed peppers. A blog post explaining the code can be found here.

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In New Zealand we split our schools into 10 groups called Socio-economic Deciles that each represent 10% of schools ranked by the relative poverty of the students family. That is, Decile 1 contains %10 of our schools where the poorest students attend up to Decile 10 that contains %10 of our schools where the wealthiest students attend.

New Zealand uses this measure to target funding to more needy schools and try and ensure that compulsory education is equal for all students, some of which may not be as privileged as others.

What I want to know is:

How effective is the decile strategy at equalling out education outcomes in New Zealand?
What are the differences of education outcomes between the 10 deciles?

I have tried to answer these questions by taking a dataset of how well students perform in different deciles and different subjects and created a small visualisation exploring their differences.

First Lecture for 159.707

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