Discussion Prompt 1
I prefer charts to tables. Easily finding a piece of information from a table is difficult as compared to finding the same piece of information on a graph. While tables give direct values unlike graphs which have to be interpreted, the values in tables are mixed and take time to find. Furthermore, charts enable one to compactly display information. This comes in handy when the data being visualized has a lot of information to be displayed. Finally, a graph easily compares information, unlike a table which requires one to manually interpret the figures before comparing the information.
Discussion Prompt 2
Question 1
From the game, it is clear that the media can twitch items on a graph to align a story to what the public needs to hear. Common twitches are made on the intervals of the scale by making the intervals uneven and also by omitting the baseline and not showing where the zero point begins on each axis. The reader should know the qualities of a good graph before beginning to interpret the information on one.
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Question 2, 3 and 4
https://www.statisticshowto.datasciencecentral.com/misleading-graphs/
The graph above compares the full-price sales between The Times and Daily Telegraph which are newspapers. The graphs published by The New York Times give a visual impression that the sales made by the Times are two times that made by Daily Telegraph. However, a close examination of the scale on the right of the two graphs reveals that the baseline y-axis did not begin at the zero mark. The information visualized by the graph is, therefore, misleading. To give accurate information, the y-axis scale should be lengthened to begin at zero (Mccready, 2018) . This way, the true difference, which is approximately a 9 percent sales difference, will be reflected instead of the 50 percent difference which is currently being visualized.
Reference
Mccready, R. (2018, September 11). 5 Ways Writers Use Misleading Graphs To Manipulate You [INFOGRAPHIC] . Retrieved from VENNGAGE: https://venngage.com/blog/misleading-graphs/
