The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to
announce our 75th Cartoon Caption Contest! Each month a cartoon, drawn by British
cartoonist John Landers, is posted for you and your students to suggest statistical
captions (cartoons are posted at the beginning of the month and submissions are due at the
end of the month). The caption contest is offered as a fun way to get your students
thinking independently about statistical concepts.
The next cartoon and the entry rules for the contest ending August 31 are at
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/august/2022/submissions
The best submission will be posted on CAUSEweb and the winner(s) will receive their choice
of a coffee mug or t-shirt imprinted with the final cartoon.
Enjoy.
If you’d like to help us learn what the community feels makes a good cartoon caption,
please go to
https://CAUSEweb.org/caption-experiment<https://causeweb.org/caption-exp… and
answer the questions you are asked about the cartoons you see. Participation is
voluntary, confidential, and quick.
If you’d like to try your hand at creating your own statistics cartoon or song or video or
poem, or other fun item, you should enter CAUSE’s A-mu-sing contest (see
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/a-mu-sing/2023/rules).
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July Results:
The July caption contest cartoon is shown here. The judges found the winning caption to be
“The art of data visualization," written by John Montagu, a student at University of
Colorado, Boulder. John’s simple caption can be a vehicle to discuss how finding a good
data visualization to tell the story of a study’s results is an art – even if it must be
combined with the science of statistics to give an appropriate impression. An honorable
mention this month goes to Jim Alloway from EMSQ Associates for his caption, “While each
plot was from a different perspective, it was the aggregation of the plots that told the
whole story.” Jim’s caption reinforces the idea that it may take several graphs to give a
full picture of a data set.
Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption and congratulations to our winners!