Help Sites / Tutorials

Handling Data from the BBC Bitesize

• Collecting and Recording Data 1
• Collecting and Recording Data 2
• Representing Data 1
• Representing Data 2
• Representing Data 3
• Measures of Average/Comparing Distributions
• More on Averages
• Probability 1
• Probability 2
• Probability 3

• More advanced tutorials from the BBC on handling data
• S-Cool Tutorials for handling data for the UK exams
• Mean, Median, Mode and Range - definitions, examples and interactive feedback

Sources of Data

What’s in a name?

• BabyNames.com.au & by categories
• NSW Interactive Name Popularity grapher – or popular names from 1995 – 2007

Birth and the numbers of Life

• NSW Births & Deaths statistics (multiple births)
• Consumer Price Index – G2 (xls file) from the Reserve Bank of Australia Stats page
• UCLA Statistics Case Studies
• Stats by categories from Canada (could be compared with ABS Census Data?)
• ABS Tables (Census data by post code)

Interesting Links

BBC Magazine shows how percentages can be used to mislead

• Putting percentages in context
• What the survey didn’t say…
• Just what is average?
• The myth of counting