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The right chart makes the finding obvious. The wrong one hides it, or worse, invents one. Start from your data type and your question, not from the chart you feel like drawing. Distribution of a single variable Relationship between two vari
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Mathematics · L4 · Data visualisation: choosing the right chart
The parts of an expression An expression mixes numbers, variables and operations, and never has an equals sign. Take 5x + 3y − 7. Terms are separated by + and − signs, and the sign in front belongs to the term. That's why the last term is −
Raw data is unreadable Data arrives in whatever order it was collected: not sorted, not counted, not organised. Before you can say anything about it you have to organise it, and the two simplest tools are a frequency table and a dot plot. T
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Mathematics · L2 · Data Displays: Dot Plots & Frequency Tables
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Mean (arithmetic average: Σx/n), Median (middle value when sorted; robust to outliers), Mode (most frequent value). For skewed distributions, the median is often preferred over the mean.
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Mathematics · L4 · Descriptive Statistics — Summarising Data
Range: how far apart are the extremes? For 4, 9, 2, 15, 7: the biggest is 15, the smallest is 2, so the range is 13. Small range means bunched together; large range means spread out. What counts as an outlier A value standing well apart fro