Keep practising!

The best way to develop and maintain your numeracy skills is to practise as much as possible. As you will have seen in this course, day-to-day life is full of opportunities to use your understanding of graphical data to achieve personal goals and make life easier..

Here are some ideas:

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• Conduct an online survey and analyse the results: This can be just for fun, if you don’t have a purpose in mind. You can use Microsoft Forms or another tool of your choosing to create a simple survey. The app should produce a report with relevant charts for you to analyse and interpret.
• Create an action plan inspired by available statistics: For example, research healthy eating and exercise habits and use data visualisations to justify elements of a personal meal plan and activity schedule.
• Create a 'debate deck': Gather a collection of interesting graphs and charts from news stories and reports. Print and cut them out to make a deck. Draw from the shuffled deck to generate random discussion topics with friends and family. For example, Figure 3 from Personal Incomes Statistics 2022 to 2023: Commentary could be the basis of a discussion about the possible reasons why income varies by age and sex as shown in the chart.
• Create a pictogram to help family members achieve a goal: For example, a 'chore chart' could show the number of chores completed by children and used as a basis for pocket money or other rewards.

External resources

Explore other apps, resources and courses that can help you on your numeracy journey:

• The Guardian article | Why you should never trust a data visualisation
• Microsoft PowerPoint | Use charts and graphs in your presentation
• Harvard University | Digital Accessibility: Data Visualizations, Charts, and Graphs
• Datawrapper | How to get started with data visualization
• Data visualisation e-learning | An introductory level course for anyone who has to create data visualisations for internal or external communications.