Let's be Finn-icky
Excellent project for data graphics literacy
Long-time reader Aleks J. sent me to this very nice statistical literacy effort, produced by a team at Tampere University and Tampere University of Applied Science in Finland (link).
Mediawatch uses as a background story that resonates with me: the modern world is flooded with lots of bad graphs and statistics, and we don't have enough time or bodies to debunk them. The technology of debunking is not keeping up with the tools of dispatching.
The Mediawatch player navigates around the website, interpreting various charts that pop up.
Here's one example:
This chart explains the start at zero rule for column charts.
Spread the word! It's an excellent project worthy of our support.
