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Using Charts and
Graphs
Types of Graphs
Types         Why

 Bar/Column    Trends
 Line          Comparisons
 Pie           Quicker/Easier to understand
 Scatter
Column or Bar
40
                                   Unit 4
30
                                   Unit 3
20
                                   Unit 2
10
                                   Unit 1
 0
     Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4            0   20   40



“Discrete” Data
No half values on the category axis
Line
                                                      Sales
            Staff Turnover           80
60
                                     60                                  Tesco
40                                   40                                  Asda

20                                   20

 0                                    0
     2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010        Jan   Feb      March   April




Continuous data
Often with time on X axis
Trends
Pie
    Favourite Sports              Class Gender Distribution


                       Rugby

                       Football

                       Tennis                      Girls
                       Cricket
                                  Boys




Percentage and Proportion
Only for full data sets
Scatter
20                            10
15
10                             5
 5
 0                             0
     0   2   4   6   8   10        0    2          4   6   8   10

                              “Trend line” or
                              “Line of best fit”

Experimental Results
Looking for trends or correlation
Look out for…
 100


 50


  0



Skewed range
Compressed scale
Incorrect range in Excel – e.g. including the total row
Choose Start Point
100

                100




                 90




  0
Sources for statistics
www.statswales.wales.gov.uk

www.statistics.gov.uk

www.informationisbeautiful.net

www.coolinfographics.com

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