Data skills for the youth.

According to IBM, 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years. However, our current education system fails to equip students with necessary data literacy skills...

The Problem

Data literacy has become an essential skill for everyone in today’s world. However, there is no current measure to equip teachers with the tools they need to educate data literacy to middle school students.

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Our Solution

Data Viz Kids provides an interactive and interdisciplinary curriculum for middle school teachers to educate and bring data literacy to classrooms.

Features

Clear Learning Objectives

Includes plugins for analytics, building sitemaps, and optimizing images

Relevant in Industry

Cultivates industry relevant data skills to prepare middle school students for higher education and workforce

Interdisciplinary

Various activities and data sources allows teachers to integrate the curriculum to any subject area

Student-centered

Emphasis on students engagement and participation through interactive activities.

About Us

Aishwarya Manoharan

Program Manager

aishwm@uw.edu

Larissa Ho

Research Lead

lho12@uw.edu

Vincent Widjaya

Tech Lead

vwidjaya@uw.edu

Jeeyoung Kim

Education Content Lead

mk0711@uw.edu

After June 2020, Data Viz Kids will no longer be maintaining this project. The data literacy curriculum will be continued by Microsoft's PowerBI team, with Maggie Tsang as their point of contact.

Maggie Tsang

Program Manager

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