look at two or more things to find similarities and differences

Combining and comparing data

Digital literacy

Data as clues

Selecting relevant data

Sorting data to solve problems

Trusting data

Data as evidence

Pupils investigate datasets to solve the mystery of Ruby, the missing rhino. They sort, organise and compare data from different sources, judge which information is useful or reliable and combine clues to form a final theory, presented as a news report.

Data detectives

look at two or more datasets to find links

because it shows only part of the information

Why might one dataset not tell the whole story?

combining evidence from multiple datasets

Which data is most relevant for answering the question:
When did Ruby leave her enclosure?

If data is reliable, it can be __________.

Starter Quiz

Which of these is a data source?