Making Sense of Data
Educator resources
Algorithms
Data reporting
Explore how we create, interact with, and are influenced by data in all aspects of our lives — and learn how to evaluate the accuracy of data-based claims and visualizations.
Learning objectives
- I can explain why data isn’t objective or infallible.
- I can differentiate between credible and questionable sources of data.
- I can explain some of the primary ways data can be distorted in misleading ways.
- I can interpret different ways data is presented.
- I can identify charts and other data visualizations that are misleading and explain why.
Essential questions
- What is data?
- When can you trust data?
- Can data ever be objective?
- Who collects data and for what purposes?
- How can people use and misuse data?
- How can we tell when data is reliable?
- What are some common problems in the ways people represent and communicate data?
