Callysto Canada
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Our education specialist and former high school teacher Dr. Verena Roberts discusses how data visualizations can be incorporated into a variety of class subjects, including English, to build critical thinking skills. https://www.callysto.ca//using-callysto-data-visualizatio/

In our final video game-themed Callysto weekly data visualization, we look at Age of Empires. Players have to construct buildings to advance through the game. But what "age" has the longest construction times? http://ow.ly/En3G50E7BGe

What are #COVID19 Variants all about? What does #vaccine efficacy really mean? Find out at our #FREE 2-Day #DataScience Workshop for #teens this Thursday & ...Friday (March 25-26th), made possible thanks to the incredible support of Callysto Canada Find out more & register at http://bit.ly/2QoHmWm

Continuing our video game theme for our weekly Callysto Data Viz, this week focuses on Twitch. The platform claims to be the world’s leading streamer for gaming, but does the data back that up? http://ow.ly/oEFc50E1tHI

Callysto is partnering with the Tla’amin Nation to present a panel discussion focused on exploring Indigenous culture through mathematics and interactive computing. We'll be looking at basket weaving & fish harvesting in the Coast Salish nations. Join us: http://ow.ly/pYYX50E0I14

Our program manager, Byron Chu, was interviewed for a Berkeley podcast on the future of Data Science education for kids in grades 5-12! #education #datascience https://datascienceeducation.substack.com/p/data-science-ed

Due to COVID-19, we needed to shift our in-person student hackathons to an online format. In our latest blog post, we share how we made that shift and our online hackathon planning guide. http://ow.ly/8gIA50CuEbW

Teachers, if you're looking for practical ways to teach digital literacy skills (such as coding), take our free, online data science course. You'll learn the how's and why's of data analysis, how to incorporate a data science exercise into your classroom, and more.

Teachers, do your students enjoy video games? This week's data visualization talks about just that popular video games! We used data science to figure out popular video games by sales and number of players. http://ow.ly/tvXJ50Coifv

Great work, Discover Coding!

Teachers, if you're looking for ways to explore the impact of WWI on Canada, look at our weekly data visualization. We used data from the Canadian War Museum to learn about the number of Canadians who served and enlisted, and the casualties of WWI. http://ow.ly/yhYx50Cjcdf #LestWeForget

New course launch! Teachers, if you're interested in bringing data science into your classroom, enroll in our free "Data Science in Your Classroom" course. Thanks Onlea for working together with us on this project. http://ow.ly/4Zcj50Ch40A

Biology teachers in Canada! We need your feedback on our new bioinformatics modules for Gr 9-12 students. Bioinformatics uses software to understand genetic data. Interested in giving feedback? Sign up here: http://ow.ly/L0Bl50CbRRn