CS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pie Chart, Radar Chart, Star Chart
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Charts are powerful tools: presentations, paper/documents. Careful overusing them in presentation: you want the audience to. Focus on you: don"t become the voice-over. Column chart: comparison of data over time, illustrating comparisons, discrete data. 3-d charts: doesn"t really add any additional values in most situations, kinda cluters the chart. Column chart with degree of confidence (ci: how reliable the data is considered to be, we represent this interval with: Stacked column: we have a breakdown of data within each category, can also be 3-d. Line charts: display continuous data over time, trends over time, can also be 3-d. When we want to illustrate key points (values) Pie charts: show relationship of data item to the sum of data items, can also be 3-d. Bar chart: column chart just turned sideways, useful for: The values that are shown are durations. Area charts: allows us to illustrate pieces over time, similar to a column chart, make up over time.
