A cartoon that provides a clever way to introduce the statistical field of sabermetrics. The cartoon was used in the May 2020 CAUSE cartoon caption contest and the winning caption was written by Larry Lesser from the The University of Texas at El Paso. The cartoon was drawn by British cartoonist John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea by Dennis Pearl from Penn State University.
A song about the trimmed mean as a robust measure of distributional center. The lyric was written by Dennis Pearl from Penn State University in May 2023 and may be sung to the tune of the KitKat jingle - music by Michael A. Levin and lyric by Ken Shuldman used in the KitKat candy bar advertisements since 1986.
A cartoon for discussing time series plots. Here an instructor might ask if the graph shown is a possible function of time. The cartoon was created by American cartoonist Jon Carter in 2017.
A cartoon to be used in discussing forecasting. The cartoon was created by American cartoonist Jon Carter.
A humorous cartoon that might be usefult to discuss the meaning of "Expectations" in the graph shown and how best to display the information provided in the two graphs if the relationship between expectations and sales is paramount. The cartoon was created by American cartoonist Jon Carter.
A tattoo to introduce a unit on visualizations. One of the data visualizations is of a pie chart with percentages that add up to over 100% so a teacher might ask a class if they see any errors in the tattoos (as with most cartoons axes are not labelled so that can be another point of discussion). The cartoon was drawn by American cartoonist Jon Carter in 2014.
A humorous cartoon that can be used in discussing time series plots and the dangers of extrapolation. The cartoon was drawn by American cartoonist Jon Carter in 2017.
A humorous cartoon to initiate a conversation about scatterplots, the strength of linear relationships and the effect of outliers. The cartoon was drawn by American cartoonist Jon Carter in 2014.
A cartoon that can be used to discuss the expression for a simple linear equation (Y=mx+b). The cartoon was drawn by American cartoonist Jon Carter in 2013.
A humorous cartoon to initiate a conversation about time series plots. The cartoon was drawn by American cartoonist Jon Carter in 2017.