Statistical Graphics Recommendations for the ASA/NCTM Annual Poster Competition and Project Competition

• Activity Number: 567
• Type: Contributed
• Date/Time: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
• Sponsor: Section on Statistical Education
• Author(s): Richard Heiberger*+ and Naomi Robbins and Jürgen Symanzik
• Companies: Temple University and NBR and Utah State University
• Keywords: Poster Competition ; Graphics

Abstract

Following the 2013 Statistics Poster Competition, accessible at http://www.amstat.org/education/posterprojects/2013posters.cfm, the three of us commented on the the graphical contents of the winning posters. Our comments are scheduled to appear in an upcoming issue of The Statistics Teacher Network, the online journal published jointly by ASA and the NCTM. Based on our review of the 2013 posters and our review of the online documentation for poster designers http://www.amstat.org/education/posterprojects/ we are proposing guidelines for statistical graphics that we would like the competition organizers to consider posting on their website. Our guidelines will include many examples of graphs, both good and bad, with clear description of what features of the graphs are responsible for our evaluation. We are moving in the direction of the booklet for participants that the Poster Competition has been contemplating for years. We will do so in a way that is properly diplomatic. For example, only good examples from the participants will be included. All bad examples will be by us and clearly labeled as not from the participants.