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State Data Map

This application uses percentages to shade in a map of the United States. It displays ten different data sets and their proportional relationships across the nation and offers an option to generate random numbers. Each state is represented by its number value in the data set and then shaded based on its percentage of the greatest value. A box and whisker plot is provided as well as mean, median, lower quartile, and upper quartile. This...

Keywords:: Social Sciences, Visual Representations, Math Process Skills, Percent, NSDL, Representation, Statistics, And Mode, Decimals, Process Skills, Physics, Number and Operations, Social Studies, General, Data Distribution, Visual Representation, Data Analysis, Arithmetic, Practice Standards, Information Visualization, Mean, Connections, Measurement, Mathematics, Comparison of Numbers, Median, Box-and-whisker Plot, Tables, Whole Numbers, Number Concepts, Frequency Graphs, Rate, Education, Reason Quantitatively, Data Presentation