A good way of demonstrating the power of illustrating data. And there is coffee. Dunkin' Donuts collected data about coffee drinking habits in the US. See below: Then, designer at en.ilovecoffee.jp turned this hum-drum data into very  p retty data : Property of en.ilovecoffee.jp

This story from NPR is a good example of 1) the media misinterpreting statistics and research findings as well as 2) Type I errors and the fact that 3) peer-reviewed does not mean perfect. Here is a print-version of the story , and here is the radio/audio version... (note: the two links don't take you to the exact same stories...the print version provides greater depth but the radio version eats up class time when you forget to prep enough for class AND it doesn't require any pesky reading on the part of your students).

Triple hilarious with bonus points for being super funny. Damn Avas! Not terribly educational but does illustrate the fact that correlation does not, in fact, equal causation. Property of Bloomberg Businessweek and Vali Chandrasekaran