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Teaching with PURR Data

Freely available datasets in the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) that lend themselves to classroom use.

Agriculture

Agriculture

Agronomy

  • Tables recording the impact of phosphorus and potassium on alfalfa nutrition (Volenec 2012). doi:10.4231/D3251FJ7S
  • Transcripts of interviews with agricultural advisors in Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska about climate issues (Dunn 2017). doi:10.4231/R73776P3

Forestry

Engineering

Biomedical Engineering

Civil Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • An engineering classroom exercise using Python to analyze snake feeding data from a local zoo (Witt 2019). doi:10.4231/D7D2-EA24
  • Low-complexity images of street signs (Bouman 2018). doi:10.4231/R7ZP44BW
  • Matlab file demonstrating a data clustering method that may also be viewed with Python or Notepad++ (Tarun 2018). doi:10.4231/R74B2ZJV

Engineering Education

Humanities

English

  • Student satisfaction surveys from the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) (Denny 2018). doi:10.4231/R7TM78C6

Film

Philosophy

  • Audio recordings and plain text transcriptions of French philosophy lectures (Deleuze 2018). doi:10.4231/R7SF2TFS

Science

Biochemistry

Computer Science

Math

  • Matlab suite of programs for generating orthogonal polynomials and related quadrature rules (Gautschi 2017). doi:10.4231/R7959FHP

Social Sciences

Anthropology

  • Mayan children's growth patterns compared to family composition (deidentified) (Kramer 2016). doi:10.4231/R7J964B4

Economics

Political Science