The folks at Wall Street Journal took CDC disease data (by state, by year, courtesy of Project Tycho ) as well as information on when various vaccines were introduced to the public. And the data tells a compelling story about the importance of vaccinations. Below, the story of measles. How to use in class: -Using archival data to educate and make a point (here, vaccine efficacy) -Visualizing many data points (infections x state x year) effectively -Interactive: You can cursor over any cube to see the related data. Below, I've highlighted Pennsylvania data from 1957. -Since you can cursor over any data point to see the data, you can ask your students to pull data for use in class. -The present data were drawn from Project Tycho , a University of Pittsburgh initiative to better share public health data. This resource may be useful for your classes as well. -This data is good for Stats class, as well as Developmental, Health, Public Health, etc.