Data Visualization, AI Claims, and Final Audit: Faculty Source Packet
A faculty-reviewed reader for ASHA-201 introducing data visualization, ai claims, and final audit through transparent methods and evidence boundaries.
Orientation
Charts are arguments made visible. Axis choices, omitted baselines, grouping, and time windows can change the apparent story.
Core concept
AI systems can produce precise-looking numbers without reliable data. Every numerical claim requires provenance and a reproducible calculation.
Evidence and method
A final audit asks what was measured, who collected it, what was excluded, which transformation was applied, and what uncertainty remains.
Application and limits
Quantitative honesty resists manipulation, false precision, and conclusions stronger than the evidence allows.
What the evidence establishes
AI systems can produce precise-looking numbers without reliable data. Every numerical claim requires provenance and a reproducible calculation.
What remains interpretive
The course requires students to distinguish disciplinary evidence from theological or philosophical interpretation and to state uncertainty where evidence is incomplete.
Seminar questions
- Which claim is most strongly established?
- What alternative explanation deserves consideration?
- How would stronger evidence change the conclusion?
