The thing about my way of teaching stats is that my cool, novel examples get old really fast. Like, pop culture is on a thirty-day cycle. Anyway, YEARS ago, 2014 to be exact, I blogged about illustrating bimodal data distributions using baby name data from the Social Security Administration. Specifically, when an older name comes back into vogue, it has a bimodal distribution when you plot time on the X axis. I stand by this example. However, all of the data illustrations come from 2014. When our traditionally aged college students were 6 or 7. Which makes this example feel a little stale. However, here is some data, courtesy of Redditor fevaah , showing old names that are back in vogue through 2025 ! And Eleanor, Violet, Nora, and Hazel are here, illustrating bimodal distributions for a new generation. If you used my old baby-name data, this is a quick, easy refresh for your lectures (or a fun new addition if you didn't). If this idea was help...
Two of my very favorite statistics comic sources are Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and XKCD. I have been following them for years, but more recently, I came across Jono Hey's Sketchplanations . These aren't ha-ha comics as much as they are concise explanations of complex concepts. And some of those explanations involve statistics and would look lovely in your class lectures. This is perfect for those of us who teach JASP and try to explain the dangers of misspelling words used as nominal variables. Also, he has a few that provide images to go with some of our favorite data quotes: Here are full entries under the comic's statistics and data tags. If this idea was helpful, you'll probably enjoy my textbook, Psychological Statistics for Everyone . It's basically this blog, but organized into a semester.