Tag: international

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Production of Dates (Fruit) In Metric Tonnes, By Country

Jenna Laib

Breaking the Fast: Production of Dates (Fruit) In Metric Tonnes, By Country Ramadan just ended. While Muslims have many different cultural traditions, a shared one is to break the fast with a date. Where do these dates come from?

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Countries That Pay Their Olympic Gold Medalists The Most, Paris 2024 (English + Français)

Jenna Laib

Countries That Pay Their Olympic Gold Medalists The Most (Paris 2024)

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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.

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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

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Number of Living Languages, by Country (2024)

Jenna Laib

Number of Living Languages, by Country (2024)graph from Our World in Data, slow reveal by Jenna Laib (Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse) Type of Graph: bar graph Visualization Source: Our World in Data, "The number of languages, indigenous and non-indigenous, that are still used." Our World in Data: July 17, 2024.“Data… Continue reading Number of Living Languages, by Country (2024)

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Chocolate Consumption per Capita (2022, selected countries) — elementary and middle school versions

Jenna Laib

New #SlowRevealGraph (Not) Everyone Loves Chocolate Looking at the estimated chocolate consumption per capita, and how it compares to the revenue per capita and the total population. Elementary version with weights in pounds encourages fractional reasoning. Elementary version with weights in kilograms encourages reasoning about decimals and proportions. Middle school version uses metric measurement and also includes additional data about ratios and proportions.