Visualize Data

Students have access to almost unlimited data on the internet. Two websites can help students make sense of this data beyond Microsoft Excel. Putting these visuals up on a SmartBoard can lead to discussions making sense of the data and discovering patterns. The above bubble graph represents the most spoken languages around the world.

Many Eyes from IBM gives users a variety of options to display data beyond the standard line graph or pie chart.

http://www.many-eyes.com/

World Mapper takes maps of the world and distorts country sizes to represent data being analyzed. For example a world map studying countries where people live on less than $2 a day would make a country like China or India a lot larger than the US.

http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html