Math course: open data sets and student selected projects

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It seemed like there was a lot of hand-holding by the instructor for the coding part of this class. Instead of having office-hours teaching each individual student how to import and manipulate data in Python, it could have been designed as a student group-based activity where students work together to be able to transpose their learning from the in-class wind data example to their own dataset. This will not only encourage more collaboration and move the skill-learning explicitly to the student (not the instructor), but also provide students with a way to gauge their own learning and modify their style based on their peers.