"Idealware's new report, Infographics for Outreach, Advocacy, and Marketing: From Data to Design, is a guide to help you think through the process of understanding and creating infographics. In it, we cover what defines an infographic and help you create one that presents your data in a compelling and easy-to-understand way. We've also included a number of examples of infographics, both good and bad, to make the point clear."
Find the data in places like Google public data
Use it as an assignment, example:
1 find data on drop-out rates for Colorado and for Denver
2 explain what this means
3 use whatever format you want to, anything
4 be creative