Volunteers from the Dept. of Statistics and Actuarial Science did a fantastic job at showing how statistics can be both interesting and exciting. One of their activities, designed to illustrate a data visualization technique, was leading flash mob "living histograms" in the AQ; they organized passers-by by height and gender to create an informative, visually appealing 3D summary. They also showed the importance of designed experiments by having participants drop paper helicopters of different designs; the goal was to identify factors that maximize the helicopters' time in the air before hitting the ground.
