Perceptual Edge How to Help Your Students Develop Data Literacy Can we really measure happiness? How does educational attainment vary across ZIP codes? What does math have to do with charity? Which team has the better athletes, Yankees or Red Sox? "Looking at data needs to become part of the conversation across every classroom, not just in math," says Harshil Parikh. Start with Curiosity The idea for TuVaLabs emerged when Parikh was tutoring children in the slums of Delhi, India. But curiosity alone isn't enough to ensure that learning happens. "We want to be a bridge between schools and the open data movement," Parikh explains. Leverage Tools and Techniques What does data analysis look like in a K-12 classroom? The Global Happiness Project, designed by the New Tech Network, offers an engaging example. Since January, students have been thinking hard about how to measure happiness, exploring existing metrics such as Bhutan's Gross National Happiness Index. Connect Data to Student Interests Start Early Ask Away What do your students wonder about?
News Graphics Collection Using JavaScript visualization libraries with R This is a short tutorial on knitr/markdown and JS visualization packages googleVis and rCharts . With these packages you can create web pages with interactive visualizations just using R. This will require minimal or no knowledge of HTML or JavaScript. You need to have the following R packages and their dependencies installed: knitr googleVis rCharts (not on CRAN) The tutorial is organized in four parts. You can download the .Rmd files (or clone the repository from github) and run knit2html() on them in your R console, or if you are using RStudio you can click "knit HTML" button on the upper left corner. 1. markdown_knitr.Rmd shows basics of markdown and knitr integration. 2. 3. googleVis.Rmd shows how to use googleVis package in a markdown document.You can incorporate plots from Google Visualization API in your R markdown document, which will be converted to an HTML document by knit2html(), the HTML output is here . 4. rCharts.Rmd shows how to use rCharts package in a markdown document.
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Photographer Angela Kelly captures intricate patterns of ice in bubbles in their first moments after they start freezing Stunning images capture beauty of liquid droplets after starting to freezeCreated by photographer Angela Kelly using homemade bubble solutionSpectacles can be seen resting atop ground, flowers and blades of grass By Sophie Jane Evans Published: 12:19 GMT, 23 December 2013 | Updated: 14:48 GMT, 23 December 2013 With their intricate patterns and perfectly circular shape, it is hard to believe these magical creations are actually made of ice. These stunning images capture the beauty of liquid droplets in their first moments after they start freezing. The spectacles - caught on camera by photographer Angela Kelly - were created using homemade bubble solution. Beautiful: These amazing photos capture the beauty of liquid droplets in their first moments after freezing Stunning: This ice sculpture features intricate detail, a frosted surface and is a perfectly circular shape Homemade: The spectacles - captured by photographer Angela Kelly - were created using bubble solution