Consumer Price Index workshop (teaches comparison of economic figures across time)
Average/median/mean workshop (teaches what can be revealed and hidden in aggregate data)
Government documents workshop (teaches students to find appropriate sources of data to make or question an argument)
University of Washington library field trip (teaches students to “get their noses away from the damn computer screen and into the stacks” by use of archives, special collections and manuscripts)
Think-tank workshop (teaches students to correlate representations of data with their sources and understand how political viewpoints color presentation of data)
Scientific management workshop (teaches students to appreciate the role of measurement in management’s control over work and workers)
Data
display workshop (students will learn to create and critique an effective
graph)