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#LWF11 – David McCandless, Author & Information Designer – Infographics & Data

ByDaniel Stucke Blog

David is the author of http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/. Worked through some fantastic infographics from his site, go look at them now.  Better still see his TED talk: Some interesting insights from using Google InSights to track search terms.  Great tool for use in the classroom. Nice talk about needing to compare proportions rather than totals, in the concept of…

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Gapminder Updates – Great for Maths, Science, Geography, Social Studies, History & More!

ByDaniel Stucke Blog

Scrolling through things I had starred for holiday reading, I noticed that Gapminder.org has been updated.  I have blogged previously about Gapminder and the fantastic Hans Rosling, it is a fantastic tool for visualising a wealth of World data on lovely scatter graphs that animate changes through the years. Watch one of Hans Rosling’s classic TED talks to see…

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Data Collection & Questionnaires with Google Docs & Twitter

ByDaniel Stucke Blog

Interview Reflection: Part 2: My interview lesson was rated as ‘good with outstanding features’ and as that was in part thanks to my network I thought it only fair I shared it with the World. I chose to teach a lesson focusing on data collection using questionnaires. A tricky lesson to get right I finally…