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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: A Data Literacy Primer

It has become simple to create a valid-looking website, which to the unassuming eye resembles an official, big-name news outlet. But as if verifying text content wasn't hard enough, compelling visualisations; graphs, charts, and maps, made with free tools found anywhere on the internet, are making fact checking even harder.

Keywords:: ICT literacy, data visualization, data literacy, statistics

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Academic Support Services / ICT (Information and Communication Technology) Literacy / Media and Visual Literacies

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Material Type:: Open (Access) Journal-Article
Date Added to MERLOT:: September 12, 2020
Date Modified in MERLOT:: October 5, 2020
Authors:: EAVI
Luc Steinberg
Submitter:: Lesley Farmer

Primary Audience:: College General Ed, College Upper Division, Graduate School
Technical Format:: Website
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Language:: English
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