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How to tell someone's age when all you know is her name: This site provides graphs of the popularity of names, providing a good source for a discussion of medians. This source could also be used to when thinking about biomodal distributions (Chapter 2) or variability/interquartile range (Chapter 4).

The Knot Wedding Survey: The Average Wedding Costs What? This site provides data of the cost of the average wedding in 2012. (Underlying data are here). This can also prompt good early discussion about sampling (who would complete an online survey for The Knot website?).