The data literacy cookbook / edited by Kelly Getz and Meryl Brodsky

Includes bibliographical references

Interpreting polls and surveys. Survey literacy : a skills-based approach to teaching survey research / Jesse Klein -- Setting the scene with surveys : using polling software to demonstrate primary and secondary data / Wendy G. Pothier -- The mini-study : a three-part assignment for original data creation, summation, and visualization / William Cuthbertson, Lyda Fontes McCartin, and Sara O'Donnell -- Finding and evaluating data. Three-step data searching / Annelise Sklar -- Transforming research questions into variables : a recipe for finding secondary data / Alice Kubas and Jenny McBurney -- Sweeten the search : discover data for reuse with a tool that links publications to the underlying data / Elizabeth Moss -- The most vital statistics : finding and analyzing historical mortality rates / Alisa Beth Rod and Jennie Correia --Understanding the enumerated world : making sense of data as an information source / Alexandra Cooper, Elizabeth Hill, and Kristi Thompson -- Looking at data / Kay K. Bjornen -- Interrogating the data : what data sets can and cannot tell us / Kristin Fontichiaro -- Data zines : a hands-on approach to community curiosities / Tess Wilson -- On the hunt : understanding and analyzing GSS data extraction for incorporation within sociological research projects / Amy Dye-Reeves -- Using statistics to define the problem : data and service learning / Amy Harris Houk and Jenny Dale -- Data and statistics in the news and media / Kaetlyn Phillips -- Data manipulation and transformation. A kinesthetic approach to data : moving to understand nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio relationship to data / Wendy Stephens -- Text mining charcuterie board / Yun Dai and Fan Luo -- Anyone can cook (R)! Open data with R, a five-week mini-mester / Jay Forrest and Ameet Doshi -- Software carpentry al dente : rendering tech training for online artisans / Peace Ossom-Williamson, Shiloh Williams, and Hammad Rauf Khan -- A recipe for improving online instruction for the carpentries / Kay K. Bjornen and Clark Iakovakis --

Data visualization. Correlation does not equal causality : introducing data literacy through infographics and statistics in the media / Nick Ruhs -- Pies, bars, charts, and graphs, oh my! A data visualization appetizer / Haley L. Lott -- Data visualization : the good, the bad, and the ugly / Kaetlyn Phillips -- Seasonal visual literacy : using current events to teach data and spatial literacy skills with adaptable LibGuides / Jacqueline Fleming and Theresa Quill -- To visualize is to experience data / Chelsea H. Barrett and Gerard Shea -- Upping the baseline for data literacy instruction / Jessica Vanderhoff -- A literacy-based approach to learning visualization with R's ggplot2 package / Angela M. Zoss -- Build your own data viz pizza : a modular approach to data visualization instruction ; Veggie pizza : choosing a data visualization tool ; Four-cheese pizza : color and accessible design / Rachel Starry -- Data visualization using web apps in a rainbow layer cake / Yun Dai and Fan Luo -- Graphical abstracts : creating appetizing infographics for your research article / Aleshia Huber -- Data management and sharing. Making file names for digital exhibits / Kate Thornhill and Gabriele Hayden -- Data management failures : teaching the importance of DMPs through cautionary examples / Richard M. Mikulski -- Low-fat research data management / Elizabeth Blackwood -- Managing qualitative social science data : an open, self-guided course / Sebastian Karcher and Diana Kapiszewski -- Seven weeks, seven DMPs : iterative learning around data management plan creation / Emma Slayton and Hannah C. Gunderman -- Equitable from the beginning : incorporating critical data perspectives into your design / Jodi Coalter, David Durden, and Leigh Amadi Dunewood --

Geospatial data. Challenge accepted : introducing geospatial data literacy through an online learning path / Joshua Sadvari and Katie Phillips -- GIS for success series : learning the basics of QGIS Workshop ; GIS for success series : let's make a map in QGIS Workshop / Kelly Grove -- Statistical and geospatial literacy for integrative genetics / Jay Forrest and Chrissy Spencer -- Web map layer cake : teaching web mapping skills with Leaflet for R / Sarah Zhang and Julie Jones -- Data in the disciplines. Data in context : how data fit into the scholarly conversation / Theresa Burress -- Let the dough rise! Integrating library instruction in a digital humanities course / René Duplain and Chantal Ripp -- Ethics and biodiversity data / Rebecca Hill Renirie -- Data decisions and the research process in the sciences and social sciences / Nicole Helregel -- Financial data for economics students / Jennifer Yao Weinraub -- Stuffed shiny app with business intelligence / Yun Dai and Fan Luo -- Fast casual marketing strategies / Juliann Couture, Halley Todd, and Natalia Tingle Dolan -- When and where : a framework for finding and evaluating social science data for reuse / Ari Gofman -- Data literacy layered lasagna for preservice teachers / Brad Dennis and Allison Hart-Young -- Data literacy outreach and engagement. Data visualization day : promoting data literacy with campus partners / Wenli Gao -- Getting messy ourselves : an experiential learning curriculum for subject librarians to engage with data literacy / Adrienne Canino -- Research data management stone soup : gauging team competencies / Michelle Armstrong, Megan Davis, Ellie Dworak, Yitzhak "Yitzy" Paul, and Elizabeth Shook -- Data literacy family style : full-day professional development / Molly Ledermann, Emilia Marcyk, Terence O'Neill, and Dianna E. Sachs -- Everyone is welcome at the table : outreach for data management and data literacy in research assignment design / Shannon Sheridan and Hilary Baribeau -- Seasoning and simmering : cultivating data literacy skills through an open data hackathon / Peace Ossom-Williamson -- From soup to nuts : finding your way around the data services buffet / Jane Fry and Chantal Ripp -- Teaching data literacy and computational thinking in educational technology / Lesley S.J. Farmer -- Data literacy programs and curricula. Cooking up a data literacy course / Claire Nickerson -- Baking a data layer cake : scaffolding data skills through video vignettes / Shannon Sheridan -- Building data literacy through scaffolded workshops : experiences and challenges / Jiebei Luo and Yaqing (Allison) Xu -- Data literacy appetizers : LibGuide data instruction modules for undergraduates / Beth Hillemann and Aaron Albertson -- Data as curation : framing data creation as a critical practice through collections-based research inquiry / Gesina A. Phillips, Tyrica Terry Kapral, Matthew J. Lavin, and Aaron Brenner -- Quantitative data skills for undergraduates : a seminar series for social science students / Whitney Kramer and Amelia Kallaher

The Data Literacy Cookbook includes a variety of approaches to and lesson plans for teaching data literacy, from simple activities to self-paced learning modules to for-credit and discipline-specific courses