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Everyday Equitable Data Literacy is Best in Social Studies, far more than in STEM

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We want them to be able to understand, critique, and argue with data, both visualizations and tables. Most of us don’t read Science or Nature. If you want the knowledge to transfer, teach it in the context that you want to transfer. Many students avoid STEM classes.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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However, Dr Emil Temnyalov , an economist at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, highlights the effects of socio-economic influences on these scores. While these are the areas of economics commonly in the news, the field is so much broader than this. Stock markets, unemployment, inflation and recession?

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The power of geographic information systems: bringing data to life with maps

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Social characteristics include population demographics, such as age, race, languages spoken and level of education. I also teach GIS and data science classes, all with a geophysical component, and conduct research in these topics. I began my career in the technical side of GIS, but I have been wooed to the social sciences.