Correlation & Best-Fit Line
~16 min · 8th grade
A sports analyst is looking at whether a basketball player's practice hours predict their game score.
Plot data on a scatter plot, identify the correlation, and draw the line of best fit.
Real world: Weather forecasting, medical research, economics, and machine learning all rely on finding patterns between two variables.
BUILD IT
Drag each player's dot onto the scatter plot (x = practice hours, y = game score). Do you see a pattern?
What pattern do you see: as practice hours increase, game scores...?