January 7 Intro to class web site, course syllabus and computer lab.  Exercise #0 (does not count for grade) Exercise 0: First Day of Class

January 14 Create your own web site! Review public health web sites and examine the way they display, report and/or provide data to users.  Exercise #1: Creating your first web site (Due to be posted online by 10pm January 20, 2002)

January 21 Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday. No classes.

January 28 Using Census Data   Exercise #2: Working with Census and Birth Data

February 4 Continue working on Exercise 2

February 11 Generating Descriptive Statistics and Histograms Exercise #3 Generating Descriptive Statistics and Histograms in Excel

February 18 Using Confidence Intervals to compare to a standard Exercise #4 Using Confidence Intervals in Community Health

February 25 Synthetic Estimation and National Survey Data lecture and assignment given. Exercise #5 Creating Target Population Estimates

March 4 Continue working on Synthetic Estimation Exercise 5 continued (no in-class session)

March 11 Intro to Geographic information systems/mapping. Exercise #7 Mapping in ArcView GIS Using Tiger files

March 18 Spring Break

March 25 Continue in lab on Geographic information systems/mapping. Exercise #7 continued

April 1 Setting Performance and Outcome Measurements: Methods for Setting Annual Targets. (no in-class session) Exercise #8 Performance and Outcome Measurement: Methods for Setting Annual Targets

April 8 Ranking and Scoring Methods: Index Construction (no in-class session) Exercise #9a Methods of Summarizing Data: Index Construction

April 15 Ranking and Scoring Methods Exercise #9b: Methods of Summarizing Data: Using Z-Scores to Rank Counties (due April 19) Exercise #9c: Methods of Summarizing Data: Z-Scores and Percentile Ranking (due April 26)

April 22 Ranking and Scoring Methods continues (finish up on Exercise 9c). Last day of class!!