What do you discover?
What do you surprise?
What’s occurring on this graph?

These three easy, open-ended questions are on the coronary heart of “What’s Going On in This Graph?” — a weekly exercise we’ve been operating in collaboration with the American Statistical Affiliation (A.S.A.) for the previous six years. This characteristic invitations college students to investigate and interpret graphs beforehand printed in The New York Occasions, first by noticing and questioning, then by making a catchy headline to seize a graph’s essential thought, and at last by contemplating what influence this information might need on them and their communities.

School rooms across the nation, and world wide, take part recurrently — both by becoming a member of our public discussion board the place college students submit feedback and work together with our instructor moderators, or by having in-person discussions in their very own faculties. They analyze graphs about sports activities figures like LeBron James, environmental tendencies like rising temperatures, financial exercise like value inflation, and political realities just like the ages of world leaders.

In the event you’re new to the characteristic, right here is the way it works:

• Most weeks throughout the college yr, from September to Might, we take a graph that has been printed in The New York Occasions and ask college students to share what they discover and surprise about it. This characteristic is totally free.

• We submit these graphs on Thursdays, and embrace them in our free weekly e-newsletter, so academics can plan for the approaching week.

• Then, on Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Japanese time, we host a live-moderated dialogue the place college students from world wide submit their observations and evaluation whereas moderators from A.S.A. facilitate the scholar dialog.

• Your class can be part of the dialogue any day of the week, not simply Wednesdays, and college students may even touch upon graphs in our archive.

• On Thursday afternoons, every week after we publish every graph, we add a “reveal” to the submit which incorporates extra background about these graphs, shout-outs for nice pupil headlines, and related statistical ideas.

You will discover all of the graphs we have now ever printed, organized by subject and graph kind, in two collections: 69 graphs from 2017-2020 (printed in 2020) and the 79 graphs from 2020-2023, listed beneath. You too can discover additionally discover them in this column, which frequently updates as we publish new graphs every college yr.