This article and figure from Harry Enten (reporting for fivethrityegiht) provides informative and horrifying data on the median last day of measurable snow in different cities in America. (Personally, I find it horrifying because my median last day of measurable snow isn't until early April). This article provides easy-to-understand examples of percentiles, interquartile range, use of archival data, and median. Portland and Dallas can go suck an egg.

Do you follow  Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal  on  Facebook  or  Twitter ? Zach Weinersmith's hilarious web comic series frequently touches upon science, research methods, data collection, and statistics. Here are some such comics. Good for spiffing up a power point, spiffing up an office door (the first comic adorns mine) or ( per this post ) testing understanding of statistical concepts. http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2080...also a good example of the availability bias! http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3129 http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3435 http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=1744 http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2980 http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4084 http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-08-05 https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4127 http://smbc-comics.com/comic/false-positives https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/relax

Nate Silver and Allison McCann (reporting for Five Thirty Eight, created graphs displaying baby name popularity over time.  The data and graphs can be used to illustrate bimodality, variability, medians, interquartile range, and percentiles. For example, the pattern of popularity for the name Violet illustrates bimodality and illustrates why measures of central tendency are incomplete descriptors of data sets: "Other names have unusual distributions. What if you know a woman — or a girl — named Violet? The median living Violet is 47 years old. However, you’d be mistaken in assuming that a given Violet is middle-aged. Instead, a quarter of Violets are older than 78, while another quarter are younger than 4. Only about 4 percent of Violets are within five years of 47." Relatedly, bimodality (resulting from the current trend of giving classic, old-lady names to baby girls) can result in massive variability for some names... ...versus trendy baby names th...