Caption Contests
Each month a panel of educators will evaluate (blind) the submitted cartoon captions based on their edutainment value for teaching statistics.
Entries are welcome from all who use or enjoy statistics, including: students, instructors, and professionals.
See past entries and ongoing contests below!
The Scree(m) Plot.
Weight of the logs ≠ log of the waits.
The many generations of data science.
Qualitative vs Quantitative Research: Tell a Story or Use a Graph?
Statisticians are fortune tellers but with greater accuracy.
Correlation does not imply Constellation.
Farmer George found he could track his dried grass yields most effectively by organizing them into haystograms.
Let's just skip the survey and jump right to the census.
Data cleaning may involve normalization.
The moment Newton discovered that data can accelerate innovation.
Take statistics! Because no one can stop the flood of data heading your way.
Climbing into the digital age.
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January 2019 - The Scree(m) Plot
Winners: Larry Lesser and Minu Bhunia -
February 2019 - Weight of the logs ≠ log of the waits
Winners: Joseph Gerda and Andrew VanZytveld -
March 2019 - The many generations of data science
Winner: Laila Poisson -
April 2019 - Qualitative vs Quantitative Research: Tell a Story or Use a Graph?
Winners: Jennifer Ann Morrow, Joe Brickman, Anthony Schmidt, and Larry Lesser -
May 2019 - Statisticians are fortune tellers but with greater accuracy
Winners: Mickey Dunlap and Douglas VanDerwerken -
June 2019 - Correlation does not imply Constellation
Winners: An anonymous contributor and Larry Lesser -
July 2019 - Farmer George found he could track his dried grass yields...
Winner: Greg Crowther -
August 2019 - Let's just skip the survey and jump right to the census
Winners: Jim Alloway and Steve Wang -
September 2019 - Data cleaning may involve normalization
Winners: Larry Lesser and Douglas VanDerwerken -
October 2019 - The moment Newton discovered that data can accelerate innovation
Winners: Eric Vance and Charlie Smith -
November 2019 - Take statistics! Because no one can stop the flood of data heading your way
Winners: Shawn Orton and Luke Fanning -
December 2019 - Climbing into the digital age
Winners: Nicholas Varberg and Mickey Dunlap