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For WP’s Department of Data, Andrew Van Dam notes the decline of the school bus and the rise of the private vehicle to bring kids to school. The estimates are based on responses to the National Household Travel Survey conducted by the Federal Highway Administration.
I rode the bus when I was a kid, until I switched to riding my bicycle. I am now a parent who drives my kids to school. So this data strikes the a chord.
Tags: kids, school bus, Washington Post
Posted by in kids, school bus, Statistical Visualization, Washington Post
Nightingale has a kid’s section with printable visualization activities. Get the kids started early while they absorb information like a sponge.
Tags: kids, Nightingale
Posted by in kids, Nightingale, Statistical Visualization
From Reddit user wequiock_falls, “What I’m about to learn about after my kid says, ‘Wanna know somefing?’ Data collected over the course of 7 days.”
Sounds about right.
Posted by in Humor, kids, Reddit, Self-surveillance
Jonathan Schwabish gave his fourth-grade son’s class a lesson on data visualization. He wrote about his experience:
I’d love to see a way to make data visualization education a broader part of the curriculum, both on its own and linked with their math and other classes. Imagine adding different shapes to maps in their Social Studies classes to encode data or using waterfall charts in their math classes to visually demonstrate a simple mathematical equation or developing simple network diagrams in science class. The combination of the scientific approach to data visualization and the creativity it sparks could serve as a great way to help students learn.
Maybe I should introduce Schwabish’s Match It Game to the Yau household. My five-year-old has been asking why I keep “doing data.”
Posted by in kids, Statistical Visualization, teaching