Data & Infographics: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #8

Today, we’re going to discuss how numbers, like statistics, and visual representations like charts and infographics can be used to help us better understand the world or profoundly deceive. Data is a really powerful form of evidence because it can be absorbed quickly and easily, but neither data nor interpretations of it, are neutral, so today we’re going to discuss how to think critically about the statistics we encounter in everyday life.

Special thanks to our partners from MediaWise who helped create this series: The Poynter Institute & The Stanford History Education Group.

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