What is Tuva?
Tuva is a data literacy solutions platform that makes it easy to visualize, explore, filter, interpret, and make sense of data in different ways, calculate basic summary statistics, and annotate graphs with arrows, movable reference lines, notes, and other highlighting tools.
Project teachers will learn how to use Tuva in conjunction with our own drinking water data, gaining confidence and capability to teach their students to manage, interpret, and communicate environmental health data in the context of a citizen science project. As students and teachers collect data as part of the SEPA “Communicating Data” project, it is deposited on our data platform on Tuva. Links to data literacy resources are available on the platform as well.
Explore the introductory and help documents below and then dive into the Five Initial Data Lessons!
Introduction and Help Documents
Five Initial Data Lessons
Use the Five Initial Data Lessons to scaffold data literacy learning. Click on the lessons below to view tutorials for each corresponding lesson.
Basics of graphing in Tuva, ask questions, and choose graph type.
| Target Skill | Video | Tuva Dataset |
| Basics | 1) Hello Data 2) Get to Know a Dataset | Arsenic in Well Water Loons & Mercury |
| Ask Questions | 3) What Questions Can I Ask? | Atlantic Hurricanes |
| Variability and Distributions | 4) Variability Matters 5) Ask a Statistical Question | Household Electricity Use Air Quality & Weather |
| What Kind of Graph? | 6) What Kind of Graph? | Hurricanes |
Hello Data
Get to Know a Dataset
What Questions Can I Ask?
Variability Matters
As students and teachers collect data as part of the SEPA “Communicating Data” project, it will be deposited on the drinking water data portal on Tuva. There is no need to upload your water quality data to Tuva. Links to data literacy resources are available on the Tuva Drinking Water Data landing page. Data from the 2015-2017 EPA All About Arsenic project is housed on Tuva as well.