Reply To: Using historical census data

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Heather Barker
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BenThank you for sharing. That’s so great that you’re getting to teach a Statistics for Social Justice at high school. I teach for a private university, and have made it part of my teaching to include social justice topics as well. This semester I’m teaching an introductory statistics course where we’re focusing on the intersection and race in education, through history and through today. We’re particularly focusing on the increase in integration of schools from Brown v Board to about 2000, then the gradual resegregation that is currently occuring in schools.I spent time as a Tinker Fellow at Concord in 2022. During that time we created a portal that is available to access a dataset called Fatal Encounters. This is a data set of over 30,000 people from 2000 to 2021 who died in a fatal encounter with police. This dataset is not just people killed in direct confrontations or arrests, but also people who may have died in a car wreck caused by a high speed chase, and even officers who may have ended their own lives. Here is the link to the portal: https://concord-consortium.github.io/codap-data-interactives/build/ The portal allows students to choose people by state and/or year. I’m attaching a short lesson I did with this dataset.If you ever need any help with the sampler I’d be glad to help as well.