5. Choosing a Data Display
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Consider the given data set.
Colors of Cars That Drive by Your House | |||
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White | 25 | Green | 3 |
Red | 12 | Silver/Gray | 27 |
Yellow | 1 | Blue | 6 |
Black | 21 | Brown/Biege | 5 |
We will analyze the data and create a display 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 Color
and the vertical axis to be Number of Cars.
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.