VIC: Smoothie

Objectives

• Construction of a robust template for smoothing of time series plots
• Comparison of the effect of mean and median based smoothing, and of the number of points used for smoothing
• Consideration of ‘centered’ methods of smoothing

Vocabulary

• moving mean & median smoothing
• time series data

About the Lesson

This task asks students to create a template for ongoing use in attempting smoothing problems. The data is saved and able to be plotted for further analysis.