Percentiles, bee swarm plots, Bureau of Labor Statistics data...so many lessons in one interactive chart.
There are so many ways to use this tool: Nathan Yau's Flowing Data is one of those websites I check every few days for statistical inspiration. He shares the work of others and his own, including this interactive bee swarm plot that illustrates salaries for various jobs. The bee plot, with the cursor of Psychology Teachers. https://flowingdata.com/2025/09/09/salary-and-occupation-2024/ There are many ways to use this in stats class: 1. At some point, you should talk about career exploration with your students. 2. Statistics students should be learning about modern data visualizations like this jitter plot, aka bee swarm plot. 3. If you cursor over any dot, you can see the 25th and 75th percentile scores and n size for that occupation's salary. 4. The size of each circle corresponds to the n size. Which I love because the point of a jitter plot is to better illustrate variability in a data set. However, each data point here represents an ...