5. Choosing a Data Display
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Which data display allows us to show qualitative data?
Sample Answer:
Eye Color Survey | |
---|---|
Color | Number of Students |
Brown | 63 |
Blue | 37 |
Hazel | 25 |
Green | 10 |
Gray | 3 |
Amber | 2 |
We are asked to create a display different than a circle graph that best represents the data. Note that this data set is divided into different categories. Therefore, a bar graph is an appropriate way to display this qualitative data. To make the bar graph, let's set the horizontal axis to be the Eye Color
and the vertical axis to be the Number of Students.
Let's do it!
Please note that this is only one possible way to represent the data! There are many other possible ways to do it.