March 1, 2022
Educators, here are some tips on how to incorporate the #DataViz Headline Challenge into your classroom and inspire your students to develop their statistics literacy:
Get Your Class Involved
- Offer the #DataViz Headline Challenge as extra credit or as a class assignment
- Volunteer to help students form teams, and/or to sponsor teams
- Offer your classroom (or if your class is virtual, your Zoom or other online meeting tools) as a shared workspace for participating students
Introduce Students to the #DataViz Headline Challenge
- The #DataViz Headline Challenge gives students the chance to test their statistical skills for a real-world application.
- It’s a contest from the American Statistical Association and New York Times Learning Network where students can analyze real data visaulizations used in top-tier media coverage.
- To compete, students work individually. Make sure they have read about the submissions process on the #DataViz Headline Challenge web page.
What is Statistics?
- Statistics is the science of learning from data. Statisticians turn data into knowledge, detecting signals from the noise in the data.
- Statistics is among the fastest-growing jobs around the world. The Bureau of Labor Statistics listed statistician as one of the fastest-growing careers between 2020 and 2030.
- Those with statistics training can choose from a wide variety of careers.
- If students don’t want to be statisticians, they will still benefit from taking statistics classes.
- More and more career fields need workers who are statistically literate, especially in our growing data-driven economy.
Educators Can Submit, Too!
- Briefly tell us how you’re using the #DataViz Headline Challenge for NYT LN’s “What’s Going On In This Graph?” in your classroom!
- All educators who submit are eligible for a random gift card drawing.
- Top recommendations will be shared online.
- Submit via the #DataViz Headline Challenge web page.
Get more resources about statistics in our Educator Toolkit.
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