[CAUSE] The CAUSE Cartoon Caption Contest for March is now taking entries

The CAUSE Cartoon Caption Contest for March is now taking entries The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to announce our 22nd Cartoon Caption Contest. Each month a cartoon, drawn by British cartoonist John Landers, will be posted for you and your students to suggest statistical captions. (note the cartoons are posted at the beginning of the previous month and submissions are due at the end of the month) The next cartoon and the entry rules for the contest ending March 31st are at [ https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/march/2018/submissions | https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/march/2018/submissions ] The best captions will be posted on CAUSEweb and the winner(s) will receive their choice of a coffee mug or t-shirt imprinted with the cartoon or free registration to eCOTS 2018. Enjoy. February Results: The February caption contest featured a cartoon showing a lab shared by two researchers. One side of the lab is in complete disarray with broken glassware, spills of various unknown liquids, and broken equipment. The other side of the lab is highly organized and in sparkling condition. The winning caption for the February contest was “Don't Forget to Clean Your Dirty Data!,” written by Jennifer Ann Morrow from University of Tennessee. Jennifer’s caption provides a nice avenue for facilitating discussions of the importance of having a plan to clean dirty/messy data. Honorable mentions this month go to Laila Poisson from the Ford Health System for her caption “As goes the lab, so go the data,” for its emphasis on the importance of gathering data in a way that avoids dirty/messy data; and to Chantal Larose from Eastern Connecticut State University for her caption “Cleanliness is next to reproducibility!,” for making the link from an organized workflow to the important topic of reproducibility of results. Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption and remember to let your students know about the CAUSE caption contest!