Not awful and boring ideas for teaching statistics

Harry Enten's "Has the snow finally stopped?"

Chemi & Giorgi's "The Pay-for-Performance Myth"

Quoctrung Bui's "Who's in the office? The American workday in one graph"

So I wrote a book: Shameless self-promotion 4

minimaxir's "Distribution of Yelp ratings for businesses, by business category"

Five Lab's Big Five Personality Predictor

Nate Silver and Allison McCann's "How to Tell Someone’s Age When All You Know Is Her Name"

Priceonomic's Hipster Music Index

Tyler Vigen's Spurious Correlations

Kevin Wu's Graph TV

Washington Post's "What your beer says about your politics"

The Atlantic's "Congratulations, Ohio! You Are the Sweariest State in the Union"

Burr Settles's "On “Geek” Versus “Nerd”"

Joshua Katz's visualizations of American dialect data (edited 11/30)

io9's "New statistics on lightning deaths in the U.S. reveal weird patterns"

University of Cambridge's Facebook Research