Mother Jones' magazine maintains a database of mass shooting events in the United States. 25 variables are collected from every shooting MJs collects 25 variables from every shooting. Below, I've included their own description of the purpose of their database: How to use in class: Within this data is an example for every test we teach in Introduction to Statistics. Correlation/Regression Fatalities Injuries Age of shooter Year of shooting Chi-square Shooter gender Shooter ethnicity Mass or Spree shooting Were the weapons obtained legally? ANOVA Shooter ethnicity T-test Mass or Spree shooting Were the weapons obtained legally? Data Cleaning  Some of these columns need some work before analysis. For instance, there are multiple weapons listed under "Weapon Type". Which is reasonable, but not helpful for descriptive data. You could walk your students through the process of recoding that column into multiple columns. You could also expl...

Taylor, writing for Mashable , describes what happens when carefully conducted public health research (published in the  Journal of the American Medical Association ) becomes attention grabbing and poorly represented click bait. Data published in JAMA (Case, Burwick, Volpp, & Patel, 2015) tested the step-counting reliability of various wearable fitness tracking devices and smart phone apps (see the data below). In addition to checking the reliability of various devices, the article makes an argument that, from a public health perspective, lots of people have smart phones but not nearly as many people have fitness trackers. So, a way to encourage wellness may be to encourage people to use the the fitness capacities within their smart phone (easier and cheaper than buying a fitness tracker). The authors never argue that fitness trackers are bad, just that 1) some are more reliable than others and 2) the easiest way to get people to engage in more mindful walking...