Information+Visualisation+in+the+NZ+Curriculum

**NZ Standards**
Key words in standards like "investigate" or "collect" tend to point to activities that could give way to a report that includes data or information visualization for an Internal assessment.

"collect"


Collect doesn't mean more than obtain and store data. This can be done with Google or Office Spreadsheet or new Google DataWiki. But plotting data can help spot abnormal data that come from encoding errors. It may also help to see patterns more clearly.

For instance:
 * [|This Tract provides a view of Census data on your block]
 * [|Haiti’s earthquake in context]
 * [|Where the public gets its news]
 * [|When & Where Are People Using Mobile Devices?]

"compare"


For instance:
 * [|States with the most and fewest firearms murders]

"investigate" or "investigation"


For instance:
 * [|Charted guide to fancy drinks]
 * [|How Starbucks’ new Trenta compares to your stomach]
 * [|T-shirt life cycle]

"analyse" or "data analysis"


For instance
 * [|A history of Coen brothers filmography]
 * [|The Full Dimension of the Arab Revolution in 50+ Infographics]
 * [|Dexter’s victims through season five]
 * [|Hey Jude flowchart]
 * [|TagCrowd] or [|Wordle] will create a tag cloud when you paste some text.
 * [|watch the world get fatter]