Look at how Dima Yarovinsky turned the Terms and Conditions documents for several social media platforms into foreboding and beautiful art/bar graphs illustrating how much we sign away without reading. Note: He even uses the X axis to describe the length of and reading time for each T&C statement!  I think data is beautiful. This example does a good job of showing the beauty and impact of good data visualizations to my students. This isn't a huge example to use in class, but I will use it next time I discuss bar graphs. For more from the artist, in his own words, visit his webpage .  For a thought review of this art, see this article by Emma Taggart .

They are bar graphs. And they are funny.

This is a fun question perfect for that first or second chapter of every intro stats text. The part with data distributions. And it works for either the 1) beginning of the Fall semester and, therefore, football season or 2) the beginning of the Spring semester and, therefore, the lead-up to the Superbowl. Anyway,  Ben Jones   tweeted a few bar chart distributions that illustrate different descriptive statistics for NFL players. https://twitter.com/DataRemixed/status/1022553248375304193  He, kindly, provided the answers to his quiz. How to use it in class: 1) Bar graphs! 2) Data distributions and asking your students to logic their way through the correct answers...it makes sense that the data is skewed young. Also, it might surprise students that very high earners in the NFL are outliers among their peers. 3) Distribution shapes: Bimodal because of linebackers. Skewed because NFL players run young and have short careers. Normal data for height because even...

Here are a bunch of Statsy GIFs. I did not create any of these but I love them all. https://www.instagram.com/linski101/ https://www.instagram.com/linski101/ https://www.instagram.com/linski101/ CI for regression lines: https://twitter.com/ClausWilke/status/1034492581588156416