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PRESENTING

INFORMATION WITH
CHARTS
INTENDED LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

Plot different types of charts


Understand when and why use each
chart type
Chart elements and formatting
options
Create and modify chart templates
Best practices for data visualization
Charts and graphs are used to make
information clearer and easier to
understand. 

A good picture is worth a thousand


numbers. 
BAR GRAPH

A bar graph is a graph that shows you information


about two or more discrete objects, events,
locations, groups of people, etc.

You can use the bar graph to make comparisons.

For example, if you count the number of students


in your class who are girls and the number who are
boys, you could make a bar graph to compare the
totals. One bar would represent the number of
boys, and another bar would represent the number
of girls.
COLUMN CHART

A column chart in Excel is just a bar graph


where the bars are displayed as columns.
Instead of the labels or categories listed on
the left, they are listed on the bottom.

For example, set up the data table for


creating a column chart showing the number
of apples eaten in a particular month.
LINE GRAPH

A line graph is great for showing  continuous change over


time.

 For example, you could use a line graph to watch the


changes in temperature in the month of March. If it is
hotter one day than on the day before, the line will go up.
If it is cooler, it will go down. By analyzing the line graph,
you can get a better idea of the changes that took place
as time went on. You can also easily determine when the
value you are graphing was highest or when it was
lowest. Including 2 lines on the same graph lets you
visualize comparisons, such as the difference between
the High and Low temperatures for each day.
PIE CHARTS

A pie chart is a circular graph where the pieces of


the pie are used to represent a percentage of a
whole.

For example, if you took a survey of the students in


your class and asked them each about their favorite
pizza, you could use the results to make a pie chart
that would show what toppings earned the most
votes. In this case, each triangle would represent a
different topping. The triangle with the largest area
would represent the topping that got the most votes,
while the toppings that got the least votes would be
represented by smaller triangles.
AREA CHARTS

An area chart or area graph combines some of the


characteristics of line graphs with the characteristics of
bar graphs.

It looks like a line graph with shading underneath the


line. Sometimes, the shading can help add meaning to a
line graph.

For example, if a line graph represented the height of


water in a reservoir over time, shading the area under
the line could make the line graph look like actual water
rising and falling.
 Stacked area charts and stacked column charts provide a way
to compare differences or proportions over time or between
different locations or groups of people.

 The height of each of the areas as well as the total height of


all the areas may change over time. If you had a series of pie
charts that compared the same items from month to month,
all of that information could be displayed in a single area
chart. For example, let's say that a teacher offered the same
pizza topping survey to each of her classes over a period of
10 years. 
This type of area chart is time-based (same survey
offered year after year), but it's not truly continuous
because the class stays the same throughout the
entire year. So, this is a case where it might be more
appropriate to show the graph as a stacked column
chart (see NEXT slide) which will depict the results as
discrete events. Everything about the data table and
the graph is pretty much the same. All you have to
do is change the chart type.
XY GRAPH (SCATTER PLOT)

An X-Y graph, also called a coordinate graph or scatter


plot, is a graph that shows different ordered pairs on an
X-Y axis (Cartesian coordinate system). X-Y graphs are
used to look at and find patterns in sets of data and to
plot mathematical formulas.

The points on the graph may form a straight line or a


curved line, and may be connected with a line. Unlike bar
graphs and line graphs, the line in an X-Y graph can curve
back on itself, forming complex patterns such as the
spirograph shown on the right. In some cases, the points
may not form a line at all. They might just be shown as a
bunch of random dots scattered all over the place (thus
the name).
To plot a point on graph paper, you first need to draw
the coordinate system and then you simply find the
point's x-coordinate, move straight up or down the
line to its y-coordinate, and draw a point. To create a
scatter plot in Excel, you first create a simple table
with one column for listing the X-coordinates and a
second column for the Y-coordinates, select the data
table, then insert the scatter chart by choosing it
from a menu.

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