Graphs.
Graphs provide a visual display of information for easy
access. Graphical information is ubiquitous in or everyday life.
Learning how to read and interpret graphical information will not only help you
in science but in all walks of life. It truly is a lifelong learning
skill. Graphs help writing about scientific topics easier. By
desribing the graphical information presented in a paper you are often capturing
key aspects of a paper. Whenever you write about scientific information
you should use data to support your ideas.
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An important part of data analysis is understanding the information contained
within a graphical representation of data. Here are some resources to help you
make better graphs and to understand the potential information contained within
graphs more completely.
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- Describing graphs in your own words helps you better understand the information
conveyed by a graph. Learn more here
- The basics of plotting points, labeling axes with appropriate scales, titles,
and units can be difficult for some introductory science students. Learn
more here
- Frequency plots or histograms are a very useful visualization tool for univariate
data. There are many resources available to help you learn more about histograms.
Learn more here
- The linear trend or slope of a graph is often a useful value to estimate from
a series of data. Learn more here
- The linear trend or slope of a graph can also be estimated from linear
regression. Learn more here