Five Datasets You Should Be Using in Your Introductory Statistics and Data Science Classes

The Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) College Report recommends the use of real data in the statistics classroom as a way to engage students and help them understand the relevance of statistics in the real world. To achieve these goals instructors should engage in a discussion of the context and purpose of that data. In this presentation, we suggest five data sets that instructors should consider using in their introductory statistics and data science classes. Using these data sets we demonstrate how the data can be used at a variety of levels to illustrate the principles described in GAISE.

Data Science Education 

Mid-Level

Education

Symposium on Data Science and Statistics (SDSS) 2023