Review of Visual Statistics 2.0

Visual Statistics 2.0 is educational software that aims to help students’ understanding and confidence with a range of statistical data analysis methodology, through visualisation with interactive capabilities. The authors state that it is to be used with a textbook or other course materials, and is intended to be useful to instructors as well as to students. Although the preface and introduction use terms such as self-discovery, learning projects, and covering concepts, Visual Statistics is very much a support system that assumes that students have already been introduced to the material and concepts “covered” by the modules. This can be seen in the language and level of the help and glossary items, which tend to be summaries, reminders and definitions rather than explanations.…The package structure, navigation and chapters are overviewed...