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Chapter 16 Graphs and Charts
16.1.1 Pie charts
Used to compare percentage values Compare parts of a whole or fractions of a whole 16.1.2 Bar charts Show the difference between different things Vertical bars Column Chart Horizontal bars Bar Chart 16.1.3 Line graphs Used to plot trends between two variables An example would be plotting the temperature of water as it was heated against time. Recap Compare parts of a whole Pie Chart Shows trends between two variables Line Graph Shows the difference Column or bar chart Task 16a Open the file employees.csv. This shows the job types, the number of employees with that job type and the percentage of employees with that job type. Create an appropriate graph or chart to show the number of employees with that job type. Task 16b Open the file employees.csv. Create an appropriate graph or chart to show the percentage of employees with that job type. Task 16c Open the file rainfall.csv. Create an appropriate graph or chart to show a comparison of the monthly data for towns A and B. Task 16d Open the file saved in task 16a and add appropriate chart labels. Add vertical axis title and horizontal axis title. Activity 16b Open the file webhits.csv. This contains data about the number of members of an online book club and the average number of website hits each week over a nine year period. Create and label an appropriate graph or chart to show a comparison of these two sets of data. Task 16e Open the chart saved in Task 16b. Display all sector labels and percentage values on the chart. Do not display a legend. Extract the sector for engineers. Make this sector red. Task 16f Open the file rainfall.csv. Create an appropriate graph or chart to show a comparison of the rainfall and average temperatures for each month in only Town A. Add a second value axis to the chart for the temperature series and label and scale these axes appropriately. Activity 16e Open the file that you saved in Activity 16b. Add a second value axis to the chart for the number of members and set the maximum value for this axis to 3200 and keep the minimum value at 0. Task 16g Open the file sales.csv. Create and appropriately label a graph or chart to show a comparison of the monthly sales income from two branches of a company in Tawara and Port Pepard. Display the value axis labels to two decimal places. Task 16h Open the file you saved in Task 16g. Edit the value axis labels so that they display as currency in dollars set to two decimal places.