Using the Arts to Build Data Literacy

by | Feb 21, 2017

The state of Minas Gerais in Brazil recognized the importance of data literacy and invited Connection Lab to lead a number of programs for various audiences in the capital of Belo Horizonte.  We’ve recently published a peer-reviewed paper in the...

DataBasic

by | Sep 18, 2016

DataBasic is a suite of easy-to-use web tools and off-screen activities for beginners that introduce concepts of data analysis. These simple tools make it easy to work with data in fun ways, so you can learn how to find great stories to tell.  Visit databasic.io to...

Food For Free Data Mural

by | Mar 8, 2015

Food for Free is an organization that distributes food to individuals and organizations every day.  Part food rescue and part social service, the organization got some help with outreach from the MIT data storytelling studio class when they designed a data mural to...

Data Mural in Brazil

by | Mar 19, 2014

In 2014 Connection Lab was invited to Minas Gerais in Brazil to lead a group of High School students in developing a mural by analyzing data that the school collects about its students. The mural process was intended to increase the students’ data literacy, to make...

Food Security Data Mural

by | Nov 22, 2013

To create one of the first data murals ever, Connection Lab partnered with the Somerville Food Security Coalition. Conenction Lab led the coalition’s members in looking at qualitative and quantitative data that they had collected about food security in the city,...