Anatomy of Tables and Graphs. Matthew Wettergreen, PhD

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1 Anatomy of Tables and Graphs Matthew Wettergreen, PhD

2 What You Will Learn Tables: Data in a Tabular Form Anatomy of a Table Types of Tables Graphs: Data in a Visual Form Anatomy of a Graph Commonly used types of Graphs

3 Table Data formatted in a tabular form Sometimes interchangeable with matrix Used for: Displaying exact numerical values Drawing comparisons Storing values for reference Tables can sometimes be converted to graphs

4 Anatomy of a Table Table Heading Title Subtitle, subheading Spanner Heading Spanner Subheading Horizontal grid lines or rules Column headings, titles, or labels Shaded area is called the field or body Vertical grid lines or rules Row Headings Rows Subheadings Vertical Axis The area where a column and row intersect is called a cell Can be referred to as the Stub Horizontal Axis Columns

5 Types of Tables

6 Graph Data formatted in a visual form Sometimes interchangable with figure or chart or plot Used to show: Comparisons Relationships Distributions Compositions

7 Types of Graphs Line Graphs Area Graphs Point Graphs Bar/Column Graphs Scatter Plot Graphs Side-by-Side Graphs Histograms Vector Graphs Pie Graphs Radar Graph Circular Graphs Countour Graph Trilinear Graphs Histogram Spider Graph Box Plot

8 Anatomy of a Graph

9 Line Graph Used to display invariant of multiple components Used to display + or (-) # s Invariant can be quantitative or categorical Points often specify discrete values Lines always specify continuous variation

10 Variations of a Line Graph

11 Line Graph Examples

12 Scatter Plot Graphs Used to convey an overall impression of the relationship between components Not used to indicate individual values Avoid illustrating more than one independent variable at once Can employ a best fit trend line

13 Variations of Scatter Plots

14 Examples of Scatter Graphs

15 Pie Graphs Also called cake chart, divided circle, circle graph, Used to demonstrate relative size of a component in relation to other components and the whole Used for proportions, fractions, percentages Not often used for # s, never for (-) # s

16 Pie Graph Anatomy

17 Pie Graph Examples

18 Bar/Column Graphs Used to compare quantitative values of components against each other or to compare over a time component Displays relative values, rarely to be taken as exact amounts Can be used to display (+) and (-) # s

19 Anatomy of a Bar/Column Graph

20 Examples of Bar/Column Graphs

21 Bar/Column Variant: Histogram Used to show the frequency values or intervals occur in a data set Can be referred to as frequency diagram Used to visualize one data set at a time only Frequency is always >0 but x-axis can have (+) or (-) values

22 Examples of Histograms

23 Bar/Column Variant: Side-by-Side Graph Used for contrasting trends between components with an independent variable Used when pairwise comparisons are paramount Do not use these for more than two independent variables not the same as (+) and (-) values of components

24 Side-by-Side Graph Examples

25 Review of Tables and Graphs Tables: Data in a Tabular Form Exact numerical values, drawing comparisons, storing values Graphs: Data in a Visual Form Comparisons, Relationships, Distributions, Compositions Line Graph, Point Graph, Pie Graph, Bar Graph, Frequency Graph

26 Prepared and Narrated by Matthew Wettergreen, PhD Created with Camtasia This work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

27 Anatomy of Tables and Graphs Matthew Wettergreen, PhD

28 What You Will Learn Tables: Data in a Tabular Form Anatomy of a Table Types of Tables Graphs: Data in a Visual Form Anatomy of a Graph Commonly used types of Graphs

29 Table Data formatted in a tabular form Sometimes interchangeable with matrix Used for: Displaying exact numerical values Drawing comparisons Storing values for reference Tables can sometimes be converted to graphs pewhispanic.org

30 Anatomy of a Table Table Heading Title Subtitle, subheading Spanner Heading Spanner Subheading Horizontal grid lines or rules Column headings, titles, or labels Shaded area is called the field or body Vertical grid lines or rules Row Headings Rows Subheadings Vertical Axis The area where a column and row intersect is called a cell Can be referred to as the Stub Horizontal Axis Columns

31 Types of Tables

32 Graph Data formatted in a visual form Sometimes interchangable with figure or chart or plot Used to show: Comparisons Relationships Distributions Compositions

33 Types of Graphs Line Graphs Area Graphs Point Graphs Bar/Column Graphs Scatter Plot Graphs Side-by-Side Graphs Histograms Vector Graphs Pie Graphs Radar Graph Circular Graphs Countour Graph Trilinear Graphs Histogram Spider Graph Box Plot

34 Anatomy of a Graph ces/writing/htwtablefigs.html

35 Line Graph Used to display invariant of multiple components Used to display + or (-) # s Invariant can be quantitative or categorical Points often specify discrete values Lines always specify continuous variation

36 Variations of a Line Graph

37 Line Graph Examples 11

38 Scatter Plot Graphs Used to convey an overall impression of the relationship between components Not used to indicate individual values Avoid illustrating more than one independent variable at once Can employ a best fit trend line

39 Variations of Scatter Plots

40 Examples of Scatter Graphs

41 Pie Graphs Also called cake chart, divided circle, circle graph, Used to demonstrate relative size of a component in relation to other components and the whole Used for proportions, fractions, percentages Not often used for # s, never for (-) # s

42 Pie Graph Anatomy

43 Pie Graph Examples

44 Bar/Column Graphs Used to compare quantitative values of components against each other or to compare over a time component Displays relative values, rarely to be taken as exact amounts Can be used to display (+) and (-) # s

45 Anatomy of a Bar/Column Graph

46 Examples of Bar/Column Graphs

47 Bar/Column Variant: Histogram Used to show the frequency values or intervals occur in a data set Can be referred to as frequency diagram Used to visualize one data set at a time only Frequency is always >0 but x-axis can have (+) or (-) values

48 Examples of Histograms

49 Bar/Column Variant: Side-by-Side Graph Used for contrasting trends between components with an independent variable Used when pairwise comparisons are paramount Do not use these for more than two independent variables not the same as (+) and (-) values of components

50 Side-by-Side Graph Examples

51 Review of Tables and Graphs Tables: Data in a Tabular Form Exact numerical values, drawing comparisons, storing values Graphs: Data in a Visual Form Comparisons, Relationships, Distributions, Compositions Line Graph, Point Graph, Pie Graph, Bar Graph, Frequency Graph

52 Prepared and Narrated by Matthew Wettergreen, PhD Created with Camtasia This work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.