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Using Charts and

Graphs
Types of Graphs
Types
Bar/Column
Line
Pie
Scatter
Why
Trends
Comparisons
Quicker/Easier to understand
Column or Bar
Discrete Data
No half values on the category axis
0
10
20
30
40
Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4 0 20 40
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Line
0
20
40
60
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Staff Turnover
0
20
40
60
80
Jan Feb March April
Sales
Tesco
Asda
Continuous data
Often with time on X axis
Trends
Pie
Favourite Sports
Rugby
Football
Tennis
Cricket
Percentage and Proportion
Only for full data sets
Girls
Boys
Class Gender Distribution
Scatter
Experimental Results
Looking for trends or correlation
Trend line or
Line of best fit
0
5
10
15
20
0 2 4 6 8 10
0
5
10
0 2 4 6 8 10
Look out for
0
50
100
Skewed range
Compressed scale
Incorrect range in Excel e.g. including the total row
Choose Start Point
0
100
90
100
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www.statistics.gov.uk
www.informationisbeautiful.net
www.coolinfographics.com
Sources for statistics

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