Unit 2:Lesson 11 Making Data Visualizations

For this lesson we used either Google Sheets or excel to create good visualizations of data. At times data sets have numerous numbers that can confuse the audience. At times we cannot use all the data from a data set because it can confuse an audience just as much as they get confused interpreting a data set full of numbers. For this data set we first practiced creating a scatter plot that showed age vs the average rating. Next, I created a line graph in which we compared the average rating of women and the average rating of men. Finally, we created a bar graph comparing the number of women vs the number of men. In my opinion, I found scatter plots easier to interpret. However, it also depends the situation or data set you are trying to represent. At times scatter plots are useful and sometimes line graphs are better.