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Data Literacy

This collection includes tools and educational materials designed to improve quantitative literacy skills. Specifically, data literacy is the ability to formulate and answer questions using data as part of evidence-based thinking, selecting and using appropriate data tools, interpreting information from data, evaluating evidence-based differences, using data to solve real problems and communicating solutions.

Date Added to MERLOT:: July 14, 2016
Created by:: Lesley Farmer
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Collection Content

TeachingWithData (Collection)
Case Study: Data Journalism (Case Study)
Red States, Blue States: Electoral Strategy Behind the Map (Syllabus)
Data Information Literacy (Development Tool)
Data Information Literacy (Open (Access) Journal-Article)
Exploring Economic Inequality with Data (Assignment)
Handling Data - Game Activity (Open (Access) Textbook)
Writing about Numbers We Should Know (Assignment)
Reading and Interpreting Data – Bar Charts (Open (Access) Textbook)
Mathematics of Planet Earth (Quiz/Test)
Applied Mathematics by Example: Theory (Open (Access) Journal-Article)
Applied Mathematics by Example: Exercises (Open (Access) Journal-Article)
EQWORLD: The World of Mathematical Equations (Quiz/Test)
GAUSS - A Graphic Calculator (Reference Material)
Mathematical Modeling in the Biosciences (Learning Object Repository)
Mathematical Moments (Collection)
Matrix multiplication: an interactive micro-course for beginners (Syllabus)
11.220 Quantitative Reasoning & Statistical Methods for Planners I (Learning Object Repository)
Do Quantitative Indicators Make Qualitative Meaning? Analysis of World Development Indicators, Human Development Indicators, and Happy Planet Indicators (Assignment)
Comparison of GDP and the Human Development Index (HDI). (Assignment)
SticiGui (Open (Access) Journal-Article)
Data and Story Library (Collection)
This School Works for Me (Online Course Module)
54-Minute Research Crash Course (Online Course)
Exploring Options: Communicating Education Metrics (Assessment Tool)
Ocean View Data Visualization Tool (Animation)
FlowingData (Assessment Tool)
Gapminder (Reference Material)
Periodic Table of Visualization Methods (Quiz/Test)
STS.067 Scientific Visualization across Disciplines: A Critical Introduction | Science, Technology, and Society (Learning Object Repository)
Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) (Collection)
RES.6-009 How to Process, Analyze and Visualize Data (MIT) (Learning Object Repository)
Statistics and Visualization for Data Analysis and Inference (Learning Object Repository)
CK-12 Probability and Statistics - Advanced (Open (Access) Journal-Article)
Guessing Correlations (Reference Material)
Statcato (Reference Material)
ANOVA Simulation (Reference Material)
Histogram Explorer (Reference Material)
Measures of Central Tendency & Outliers (Open (Access) Textbook)
Practice Classifying Statistics Problems (Drill and Practice)
WISE Confidence Interval Game (Animation)
Interactivate: Boxplot (Reference Material)
BrightStat.com - Statistics made easy (Reference Material)
StatPrimer (Collection)
Topics in Statistical Data Analysis (Open (Access) Textbook)
Googlesheets: Statistics by Larry Green (Development Tool)
Scientific Resources (Quiz/Test)
Introduction to basic data analysis and interpretation for health programs (Learning Object Repository)
Statistics in Schools (Collection)
Youth Data Literacy (Collection)
EAVI - Media Literacy for Citizenship (Collection)
The Data Journalism Handbook (Open (Access) Journal-Article)
Show me the data! Partnering with instructors to teach data literacy (Online Course Module)
Research Guides: Data Literacy: Teaching Tools (Collection)
Data Literacy Program | Qlik (Learning Object Repository)
Data Literacy | Oceans of Data (Collection)
Better the data you know (Online Course Module)
Incorporating Computational Thinking into Library Graduate Course Goals and Objectives (Online Course Module)
Library Data Analytics (Collection)
Data Information Literacy (Open (Access) Journal-Article)
Data Literacy (Collection)
Representing and manipulating data in computers: 1 Representing ... ()
Datawrapper (Development Tool)
Dataset Search (Collection)
Creating Data Literate Students | (Open (Access) Journal-Article)
How to Lie with Statistics (Open (Access) Journal-Article)
The Curious Journalist's Guide to Data (Open (Access) Journal-Article)
Investigative Reporters & Editors Educators’ Center (Collection)
Visualization for Data Journalism | Coursera (Open (Access) Journal-Article)
Excel Easy (Syllabus)
Data journalism training materials (Hybrid or Blended Course)
The Fallacy Files: How to Read a Poll (Presentation)