MCS 140: Elementary Statistics: Websites

A guide for writing and discussing the use of statistics in news articles and other mainstream media. Includes questions that may be useful as starting points for your analysis of how numbers are used to report (and sometimes obfuscate) the news.

Source for data visualizations.

Source for analysis of data, statistics, polls, and visualizations.

Author Kaiser Fung highlights good and bad visualizations.

A project that demonstrates how correlation does not mean causation.

Posts often include data, statistics, and visualizations.

USA Today posts stories with graphics and data visualizations on a variety of topics.