A clever YouTuber, PWA , built a channel with nearly a million followers based on animated videos that compare nations based on data. Every nation is a sassy sphere. Each grows and shrinks in size, in comparison with other nations, as the data is presented. Like this image, illustrating national debt as a portion of GDP... I swear, it is funny and engaging without trying too hard. Also, for better or worse, framing data sharing and visualization as a thing that can make you a successful influencer WILL grab your students' attention. I think these videos would make good  bell-ringer s ( TM Janet Peters) for the start of your class. This influencer makes a ton of videos, and they aren't all related to data, FYI. Here are a few good examples for Stats class:  National Debt: In this clip, the countries compare their national debt. This video discusses some of the choices statisticians make with their data. For example, they compare their national debt in USD and then compare...

1. I assure you, your traditional college-aged students know who Mr. Beast is. 2. If you don't know who he is, just Google him. 3. His real name is Jimmy so that's what I'll call him for the remainder of the post because while I respect his work and can't handle writing/referring to an adult human who isn't a wrestler as Mr. Beast again. Anyway, Jimmy shared, via Twitter (it is still Twitter) that he had done some A/B testing on his clips. A story in two Tweets.  https://twitter.com/MrBeast/status/1699460698726613343 https://x.com/MrBeast/status/1699460698726613343?s=20 This story made the rounds because Mr. Beast is such a famous YouTuber . How can you use this example in class? 1. Introduce A/B testing, and how some of the techniques used by professional statisticians are actually pretty straightforward application of basic statistics tests (here, paired t -test). 2. Conduct a paired t -test: I made up some pretend data that imitates these findings . 3. Review the...