Statistics
3rd Hour
Mr. Staublin
This is a good graph because,
● Data points are represented clearly
● Contains a descriptive title
● Scale is easy to interpret
● Units are labeled on yaxis
● Used different colors to distinguish the data http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/01/collegegraduatesstartingwagesdowndollardec ade_n_944938.html
This is a bad graph because,
● The yaxis is upside down
● Hard to interpret
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Statistics
3rd Hour
Mr. Staublin
This is a good graph because,
● Contains a descriptive title
● Legend
● The axes are labeled
● Scale is easy to interpret and well distributed
● Different colors are used to distinguish the data http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/18/unionmembershipmiddleclassincome_n_39485 43.html
This is a bad graph because,
● Scale is not well distributed
● Hard to interpret data
● Misleading
The data is not effectively distributed which causes ithttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/raviparikh/liewithdatavisualization_b_5169715.html Itzuri Hernandez
Statistics
3rd Hour
Mr. Staublin
This is a bad graph because,
● Does not have a title
● No labels on the axes
● The data provided on the axes does not match