Our primary hypothesis was that the use of case studies with an emphasis on data presentation by the instructor and small group discussion by students would improve students' abilities to interpret ...

A new study suggests that the format in which graphs are presented may be biasing people into being too optimistic or pessimistic about the trends the graphs display. Academics found that when people ...

In algorithms, as in life, negativity can be a drag. Consider the problem of finding the shortest path between two points on a graph — a network of nodes connected by links, or edges. Often, these ...