The CAUSE Cartoon Caption Contest for September is now taking entries
The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to
announce our fourth 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.
The next cartoon and the entry rules for the contest ending September 1 are at
https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/september/2016/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.
August Results: We had 19 submissions for the August caption contest that featured a
cartoon showing a scene with a man working on a computer showing a variety of graphs on
the monitor. Meanwhile fire and smoke were coming out of the screen. The August caption
contest was won by Barb Osyk from the University of Akron. Barb’s entry (“I know that data
visualization is a ‘hot' topic, but aren't you getting a bit too fired up here?”)
was selected for its clever play on words and being well suited for starting a
conversation about the value of data visualizations. Other honorable mentions that rose to
the top of the judging included “I told you exploded pie charts are dangerous!” written by
Aaron Profitt from God’s Bible School and College; “Liar liar, data on fire,” written by
Mickey Dunlap from University of Tennessee at Martin: and “I warned you about using hot
deck imputation when you have so much missing data!” written by Elizabeth Stasny, from The
Ohio State University.