[Year 12 IT Apps] Rainfall Data

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Nice one Frank, thanks for sharing this. Am looking forward to trying it
out for Unit 1 later this term :-)

This is where spreadsheets are at their real world, computational data
processing best; large data sets that are begging for number crunching. I
had a similar weather printout that I once rolled out onto the class floor,
asking teams of students to race whilst tallying up a column for a sum,
average, max and min.

Regards Roland

On 2 March 2012 17:02, Russo, Frank R <Russo.Frank.R at edumail.vic.gov.au>wrote:

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> Hi Everyone****
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> Have been putting together a unit on Rain for Science and got some data
> for February Rainfall 2012 from www.melbournewater.com.au****
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> Have put it into a spreadsheet so that anyone can use as an activity with
> their IT students especially in Unit 1.****
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> Interestingly there seems to be some errors in the Data? Frankston North
> (5.8mm) and Somerton (7.8mm) have quite low values compared to the rest of
> the state 40+ mm and some around 150mm.****
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> I have emailed Melbourne Water to see if they can explain as typographical
> or machine error (gauges).****
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> There could be a project/outcome in there as they have monthly data going
> back to September 2003. So that you could pick areas close by and study the
> pattern of data over a period of 8 years.****
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> Try these links:
> http://www.melbournewater.com.au/content/water_storages/water_report/rainfall_data.aspand the archive
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> http://www.melbournewater.com.au/content/water_storages/water_report/rainfall_archive.asp
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> Will let you know of response from Melbourne Water.****
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Campus

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2010

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