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Representing data
Course modified date: 5 June 2022
Learn about representing data, undertand what data is and why it is important to represent it. This course is ideal for beginners.
Introduction
Data is information: a collection of numbers, words, measurements, facts and statistics.Data is not useful unless presented in an appropriate way.
Data is the basis for the creation of charts and graphs.
A visual representation of data allows:
- Easier
extraction and interpretation of information
- Comparison
between the different elements of the data
- Presentation
of large pieces of information in a small space
You will learn
- Understand what data is and why it is important to represent it
- Distinguish between the most common visual representations of data
- Identify what a bar chart, a pie chart and a line graph are
- Read charts and graphs accurately
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