Sharleen Forbes
Data Visualisation: A Motivational and Teaching Tool in Official Statistics
paper reports use 2011 recent data visualizations motivate students assist understanding underlying official statistics concepts examples visualisations used masters course public policy applied statistics honours course presented visualizations free either online opensource easy access although aggregates large official data sets may mask underlying variation provide students fun tools explore patterns relationships variables data set discuss implications sometimes lead new questions analyses geovisualisations help demonstrate interdisciplinary nature official statistics real world initial feedback students courses enthusiastic ongoing challenge teacher keep uptodate world rapidly evolving technology see learning opportunities may provide paper suggests data visualisation valuable teaching resource longer term may implications teach also teach statistics