Category: graphs

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Home Refrigerators Correlated to Drop in Stomach Cancer Deaths (Percent Decrease)

Jenna Laib

Refrigerators Correlated to Drop in Stomach Cancer Deaths (Percent Decrease)graph by Iryna Suprun; slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: line graph Visualization Source: Suprun, Iryna. "Refrigerator Against Stomach Cancer." Voronoi: October 24, 2025. Data Sources: Our World In Data. "Stomach Cancer Death Rate." WHO… Continue reading Home Refrigerators Correlated to Drop in Stomach Cancer Deaths (Percent Decrease)

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Comparing Serena Williams’ Age with Her Opponent’s

Jenna Laib

Comparing Serena Williams' Age with Her Opponent's Making sense of association with bivariate data (*suggested by someone I met at the DS4E event at NCTM. I spoke with so many people that I can't remember which conversation this came from, so if it was you: e-mail me!)

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From Farm to Fork to Footprint: Teaching Food Sustainability with Real Data

Jenna Laib

Guest Blog by Matt Wilkins (from Galactic Polymath) How can we empower students as current and future changemakers to address the challenges of climate change?  One way to make sense of and develop agency around issues like this is to use data. For example,  help students understand the carbon footprints of food in order to… Continue reading From Farm to Fork to Footprint: Teaching Food Sustainability with Real Data

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Have foreign tourists really avoided America this year? (2025)

Jenna Laib

Have foreign tourists really avoided America this summer? This graph from the Economist may look like a simple bar graph, but it asks the viewer to integrate ideas about both percentage change and also the actual change.

*social justice, line graph

Share of US University Degrees Going To Women (1870 – 2020)

Jenna Laib

Share of US University Degrees Going To Women (1870 - 2020)graph by StaDaFa; slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: line graph Visualization Source: Statistics_Data_Facts, “Share Of University Degrees Going To Women.” StaDaFa.com: January 2023. Data Sources: U.S. Department of Education, NCES, Earned Degrees Conferred,… Continue reading Share of US University Degrees Going To Women (1870 – 2020)

#savetheplanet, bar graph

Days Between Billion-Dollar Natural Disasters in the US

Jenna Laib

Days Between Billion-Dollar Natural Disasters in the USgraph by Climate Central; slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: bar graph Visualization Source: Climate Central, “U.S. Billion-Dollar Disasters: 1980-2024.” Climate Central: July 16, 2025. Accessed at https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/billion-dollar-disasters-2025 Data Source: NOAA/NCEI, “Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters.” National… Continue reading Days Between Billion-Dollar Natural Disasters in the US

bar graph, stacked bar graph

Immigrants’ Big Share of Nobel Prizes in the Sciences

Jenna Laib

Immigrants' Big Share of Nobel Prizes in the Sciencesgraph by Katharina Buchholz/Statista; slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: bar graph Visualization Source: Buchholz, Katharina. “Immigrants' Big Share of Nobel Prizes in the Sciences.” Statista: October 8, 2020. Accessed at https://www.statista.com/chart/19646/science-nobel-prizes-by-country-and-immigrant-share/ Data Source: Nobel Prize… Continue reading Immigrants’ Big Share of Nobel Prizes in the Sciences