A "Wisdom of the Crowd" Callysto

wisdom-of-the-crowd.ipynb

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    "# Wisdom of the Crowd\n",
    "\n",
    "For this exercise, we'll take turns guessing the number of candies in the supplied container!\n",
    "\n",
    "Although any single guess is unlikely to get the number exactly right, when a large group of people take individual guesses the distribution of their guesses can get surprisingly close to the true answer! This is known as the \"Wisdom of the Crowd\".\n",
    "\n",
    "We'll try that here by allowing everyone in the class to enter their guess in the supplied spreadsheet and plot everyone's guesses:\n",
    "\n",
    "[Google Sheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/116_Eqh_urkADXFegJuIEvQRr6syQKo3K8hFfryGUDWA/edit?usp=sharing)"
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    "import pandas as pd\n",
    "import plotly.graph_objects as go\n",
    "\n",
    "# Read from Google Sheet\n",
    "spreadsheet_key = '116_Eqh_urkADXFegJuIEvQRr6syQKo3K8hFfryGUDWA'\n",
    "spreadsheet_gid = '0'\n",
    "csv_link = f'https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/{spreadsheet_key}/export?gid={spreadsheet_gid}&format=csv'\n",
    "guesses = pd.read_csv(csv_link)\n",
    "guesses.rename(columns={'Enter your guesses below, please do not delete any other guesses!!!': 'Guesses'}, inplace=True)\n",
    "\n",
    "# Plot\n",
    "layout = dict(\n",
    "    title = 'Distribution of Candy Guesses',\n",
    "    xaxis = dict(\n",
    "        title = 'Number of Candies'\n",
    "            ),\n",
    "    yaxis = dict(\n",
    "        title = 'Frequency'\n",
    "            )\n",
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    "fig = go.Figure(data=[go.Histogram(x=guesses.iloc[:,0],\n",
    "                                  xbins=dict(size=50))],\n",
    "                layout=layout\n",
    "                )\n",
    "\n",
    "fig.show()\n",
    "\n",
    "print('Descriptive statistics:')\n",
    "display(guesses.describe())"
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