Implications of the Data Revolution for Statistics Education

International Statistical Review

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 528-549

  Ridgway, Jim ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

big data; change; curriculum; data driven journalism; modelling; open data; statistical literacy; statistics education; visualisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938273244     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: 17515823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/insr.12110     Document Type: Article

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