Information Transfer

Bonala Kondal

What is information transfer?

Information in verbal form can be made clearer and easier to understand by presenting it in graphic or pictorial form. It involves how to restate a given body of material in different ways. It is required in personal as well as professional lives to explain a map, graph or table in speech or writing to represent a verbal text in graphic form.

Importance of information transfer

Information transfer is used in the contexts of
Narration Physical and process description Listing and classifying Comparison and contrast To show cause and effect relationship Generalizing from numerical data

Graphics
Graphics can be used to make the information in a written or oral presentation clearer and easier to understand. Graphics can be used in two ways To supplement information given in a written text or when speaking and As alternative modes of presenting information.

Advantages
Quick viewing of a large amount of data possible Finding information in a table or map quicker than it is in a written text Efficiently summarise data pertaining to a long period of time or to a large number of people Convenient in making comparison involving large amounts of data

Types of graphic representations

Maps and plans Tables Graphs Bar charts Flow charts Pie charts Tree diagrams Pictograms and Diagrams

Maps and plans

Maps are representations, usaully on plane surface, of a part of the earth continents, countries, cities, villages, small areas and even buildings. They show outlines and boundaries, names or codes of areas within them and features such as roads, coastlines, rivers, building and rooms.

Tables
A simple form of graphic representation, in which data are arranged in horizontal rows and vertical columns that carry labels to identify what they represent.

Graphs / Line graphs

A line graph is a way of depicting graphically how two quantities are related, and how they vary in relation to one another.

Bar charts
It is used to depict levels of of a qualitative, independent variable using individual bars. It consists of an axis and a series of labeled horizontal or vertical bars with different values. The numbers along one side of the bar graph is the scale.

Flow charts
It is used to represent a process that takes place in successsive stages, as in a production process from raw material to finished product. It is used to show at a quick glance not only industrial processes but also others that consist of clear successive stages. There are conventions for the use of the shapes of squares, rectangles and diamonds to signify each step of the program.

Pie charts/ circle chart

It consists of a circle divided into sections, each showing the size of some related piece of information. It is used to display the sizes of parts that make up a whole.

Tree diagrams
Tree diagrams are of two types The organization chart: it is used to show the structure and lines of responsibility within a company or an institution. And The genealogical tree/family tree: it is used to represent the structure of a major group such as mineral rocks or the structure of sentences in books on grammar or relationships within a large family.

Pictograms
A pictogram is another very interesting way of presenting data. Picture is used in place of bars or figures.

Pictogram
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