Our world experience is increasingly archived, indexed and measured, and this massive quantity of data has a story to tell. But numbers arranged in columns and rows it is a foreign language to the human brain. Math courses teach us to manage numbers that come in the dozens. But when they are counted in gigabytes, then we need new ways to interpret the data, new ways to help them tell their story.
This workshop will explore the topics of data visualization and infographics, perhaps the coolest thing happening on the Internet today. Participants will witness many examples of this unique intersection between content, mathematics and art, and learn how teachers and learners can utilize some of these techniques to make their world of numbers sing.
