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Bringing Data to Life into an Introductory Statistics Course with Gapminder
Author(s) -
Le DaiTrang
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/test.12015
Subject(s) - course (navigation) , curiosity , computer science , mathematics education , simple (philosophy) , natural (archaeology) , data science , statistics education , statistics , psychology , mathematics , geography , engineering , epistemology , social psychology , philosophy , archaeology , aerospace engineering
Summary Gapminder is a free and easy to use software for visualising real‐world data in multiple dimensions. The simple format of the Cartesian coordinate system is used in a dynamic and interactive way to convey a great deal of information. This tool can be readily used to arouse students' natural curiosity regarding world events and to increase the motivation to understand statistics.

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