The Military Spending lab uses interactive, online graphs to better understand total military spending for each country. We see the limitations of traditional histograms and also consider the importance of using appropriate scales when comparing countries. The emphasisis of this lab is on understanding the impact of appropriate data transformations and data visualizations.
App: http://shiny.grinnell.edu/Military_Spending_Basic/
Handout: http://web.grinnell.edu/individuals/kuipers/stat2labs/Handouts/MilSpendB...