Understanding Data in the Media

Taking a View From the Outside


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We’ve started to get a sense of some of the different ways that the media uses data to make you think numbers are big or small, but sometimes, to understand the size of a number, we need to compare it to something else.

In this video, Mark introduces some useful comparisons for particular kinds of data - such as comparing to other countries and looking back through time.
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Understanding Data in the MediaBy The University of Sheffield


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