The Data Presentation Project: Due Thursday, Oct. 6th
Deliverables: One data table, three (3) graphs and a paragraph explaining the results to your "audience." The graphs need not have ALL three data columns on each graph, for example, you can have a histogram that simply charts the daily high temperatures in San Francisco. One of your graphs should be an x-y graph that charts two variables.
Option 1: Make a table of the Daily High Temperatures for two (2) North American cities for a selected 90-day period. Then choose from three (3) different data displays to present your data. Write a paragraph to explain your findings. Your audience is vacationers. Your data "columns" will be DATE (Day) i.e. April 1, 2011, TEMPERATURE-1 (for the 1st city), and TEMPERATURE-2 (for the 2nd city).
Option 2: Make a table for Major League Baseball teams with Won-Lost percentage, Team Batting Average and Team E.R.A. as your data columns. Create three graphs to present the data in the table. Write a paragraph to explain your findings. Your audience is sports fans.
(You may choose any sport that has a team won-lost percentage, and two statistical categories, preferable one offensive and one defensive).
Option 3: If you would like to MYOP (make your own project) you will need to propose a topic AND tell me what the 3 data columns in your table will be.
I'd like to see three different graphs, although I would settle for a repeated graph where you are comparing/contrasting one graph vs. another... I want YOU to supply some THINKING here, as to which graphs would communicate information best... remember, by using different types of graphs (aka data displays) you can consolidate/summarize data... for instance, when showing the temps over a 90-day period, instead of having day-1 thru day-90 on your (horizontal) x-axis, you could have average temps for week-1 thru week-13... ca-peesh??
ReplyDeleteHmmm... no questions on the project OR the chapter review... I guess I should assume that all projects will be turned in on time (with no whining!) and everyone is getting a 100% on the test... WOO-HOO!!
ReplyDeleteI guess I can start the next unit tomorrow since no one has any questions... r u gettin' the jist of how I'm thinkin', Mr. & Ms. Lincoln??
Im confused how do we compare 3 things all together?
ReplyDeleteWow, doing great on this project so far! But can we use ANY 3 types of charts to display our data?
ReplyDeleteANY 3 graphs will do... even graphs that we didn't cover in class. I would like you to be able to tell us an informative short story about your data using the graphs you create... wanna create a 4th??? knock yourself out!
ReplyDeleteI did a scatter plot of the MLB baseball teams. Do I have to lable each individual point and should I add a trend line?
ReplyDeleteok so i now i have to do 3 charts. i already have 2: a scatter plot, and a monthy average-bar graph. does anyone have any other ideas of a 3rd one? im totally at a loss
ReplyDeleteyou could do a line graph.
ReplyDeletei just wanted to know where you can find some good websites to see the weather. already have a graph done and trying to find out how to do the rest
ReplyDeletehttp://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/climatedata.html
ReplyDeleteCan you please list some sites with the high temperatures over 90 days, because I can't seem to find an accurate site, that doesn't confuse me. Please HELP!!!! if u find a good reliable site please let me know!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks
Should we have like a paragraph describing our data. i don't know if Mr.Chamberlain said something about writing a paragraph or another teacher
ReplyDeleteDear Paragraph-Puzzled,
ReplyDeletePlease take a look at the blog post (ABOVE) where I describe the project deliverables... you will find the answer you seek. The paragraph is simple and non-techy, non-mathy... why did you choose the graphs you did and what do they show us.
Seek and ye shall find!
say i was doing a table for team era in baseball. For the table would i have to include the name of every team on the right and the stats on the left?
ReplyDeleteHow many baseball teams do we need to have for our graphs?
ReplyDeletePencil works for me... colored pencil or marker is always a nice touch...
ReplyDeletei think the baseball graph should be done WITHOUT team names, but rather with team Won-Lost percentage graphed against either batting average or ERA. That would be more informative.
ReplyDeletecan we use pie charts. i was planing to make 16 little pie charts. it's my last graph
ReplyDeleteI'm confused about the format for the data columns can u post an example mr chamberlain?
ReplyDeletePie charts are fine.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, a data table? For weather, column-1 would be the day (day 1 thru day 90), column-2 would be the temp in city-1 and column-3 would be the temp in city-2.
For baseball, column-1 would be the Won-Lost percentage, column-2 would be the batting average and column-3 would be the E.R.A.
Hope that helps.
I made my chart by weeks and said 90 days in parentheses will that be accepted?
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