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Which chart should I use?

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One of the more directly applicable units in math is the idea of interpreting data and then presenting it in the proper graphical form. We’re introduced to scatterplots, histograms, pie charts, line graphs, among a plethora of others, but which one should be used given a particular set of data? The graphic below gives us a good idea!

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Written by Jerry Chen

December 13, 2009 at 1:26 pm

Posted in Mathematics, Science

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