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Understanding This Year’s Incoming Students – Beyond the Beloit Mindset List

Beloit has published their Class of 2018 “Mindset List” to help inform instructors about the cultural references that will (or will not) make sense to the incoming class of students. While this list can be amusing, and may offer some useful information on what obscure sitcom lines may no longer make sense to 18-year-olds, it is a rather simplistic view of the students who are now coming our way.

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Visualizing Gettysburg

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Data Visualization Presentations

Example of Data Visualization in Lecture

The short lecture below is an interesting example of how data visualization software can be used to present complex relationships and trends. The chart you see was not produced just for this video, but is based on graphics from a site called Gapminder (www.gapminder.org) which allows the user to create similar animated charts using a variety of data sets in a variety of configurations. Watch this video and then explore the software and see what you can discover for yourself.