Perhaps go in and edit the powerpoint itself to get rid of, for example, "(Cal)Clicker". Dan provides b/w as well as ppt files as well - perhaps for teachers?
Pages 1-3 of this article about data mining The article goes on to describe the processes invovled in data mining, the kinds of data that can be mined, and the kind of information that can be discovered from data mining.
Discuss: What opportunities are provided by large data sets?
Discuss: What challenges are presented by them?
How do Internet search engines work?
Search is a new form of control over information (p. 111). Read "It Matters How It Works" on pages 120-121 in Chapter 4 of Blown to Bits. More details about each of the 7 steps follow in the chapter.
How do we access the data we want? How do we use computers to transform data into useful information?
GPS Forensics will give you experience with looking for patterns in data.
In Weather App, you will pull and display data from an online database.
Spam and Ham is an optional lab in which you use a dataset to help you make decisions about the criteria you might use to build a spam filter.