Web Resources

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Web 1: Multimodal Facebook Break-Up Times

Description: This visual display of peak relationship break-ups over the course of the year helps students understand multimodal data. This source could also be used to when thinking about measures of central tendency (Chapter 3) or variability/interquartile range (Chapter 4).

The overall site www.informationisbeautiful.net is worth a look.

Web 2: Baby Name Frequencies

Description: This site provides the frequencies of names from the 1880s until 2013, with visualizations that change as you type.