Charts

A picture is worth a thousand words." This is certainly true when you're presenting and explaining data Graphs or charts help people understand data quickly When we want to make a comparison, show a relationship, or highlight a trend, they help your audience A graph is a chart or drawing that shows the relationship between changing things.They are a diagram displaying the relationship between numbers or amounts. Common graphs use bars, lines, or parts of a circle to display data Click to edit Master subtitle style

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Importance of charts

Complex facts and figures can be much more easily absorbed Audiences are more likely to be interested (than in explanation of words) It can be presented to large groups

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Features
ability to extract meaning from data. Drawn By free hand Drawing and computer aided applications Dimensions in the data are often displayed onaxes. If a horizontal and a vertical axis are used, they

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Types of Charts

Histogram Bar Charts Pie Charts consists of tabular frequencies, shown as adjacent rectangles, erected over discrete intervals (bins), with an area equal to the frequency of the observations in the interval.
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Histogram

consists of tabular frequencies, shown as adjacent rectangles, erected over discrete intervals (bins) with an area equal to the frequency of the observations in the interval. Used to show distribution of data designed to 6/12/12 show centering,

Histogram

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Bar Chart

A bar chart is a chart with rectangular bars with lengths proportional to the values that they represent. The bars can be plotted vertically or horizontally.
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Bar Chart

Abar chartis a chart with rectangular bars with lengths proportional to the values that they represent. The bars can be plotted vertically or horizontally.

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Pie Chart

Apie chart(or acircle graph) is acircular chartdivided into sectors, illustrating proportion. In a pie chart, the arc lengthof each sector (and consequently its 6/12/12

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