A stem and leaf plot is a good way to graphically show numberical data and is very much like a histogram. Here at the left it is a plot showing the ages of people at a family reunion. I have never been a fan of this type of plot. To me it is very confusing. But a lot of people like it.
A box plot is a good way of showing data and it uses five different summaries of numbers to show the data. Here on the left it is showing the comparisons of energy and a machine.
A histogram is a graph that displays different sets of data by using rectangles. The histogram here at the left is having to do with a number of students and their final exam grade.
This type of graph can be very confusing and hard to read. It is made by drawing many different parallel lines in many different dimensions. you can see that the data looks three-D. The website I got this off was doing some sort of science experiment with drosophilia.
A triangular plot is a plot of data that is made into a triangle to show the data. It typically shows three different sets of data. This one is using different colors to depict the different data it has recorded. The key to the right shows what each color represents. This map talks about the Kmax off Kauai for various slip allocations between three aleutian sources.
A climograph is a graph that shows a thematic type of data. The data that a climograph hows is the amount of precipitation in a given area in a certain time period. Here in the left I have the amount of precipitation in Australia. This type of map is used all the time in weather.
A population profile is just what it sounds like. It is a profile of a set of a population. Here in this map I have data that links how many people have or do not have aids and it is also broken down between men and women. These types of profiles are used in our government all the time to profile different themes of our population.
A scatter plot is a plot that shows a scattered amount of data. The cool thing about a scatter plot is that it enables you to do a line of best fit to show the median of the data you have plotted. I used this a lot in my science courses that I have taken in school to show all the data we collected. Here is shows the ages of different people's wives.
The index value plot is good at showing different discrepancies between different sets of data. This plot shows different data happening in the history of the stock market up until December 2007
An Accumulative line graph is a line graph that shows a whole set of data. it is "cumulative" of the data that is being presented so it shows the "whole' thing. The line graph to the left shows different defects. But you can see how it lables the cumulative percentage.
A bilateral graph shows two different things. It shows data when something is negative and when something is positive. This graph to the left has to do with japanese environmental issues. You can see how there are more than 1 types if variables on the graph.
A nominal area map is very simple. It is a map that is used to display nominal data. In this map to the left it is showing the percentages of minority groups in different states in America.
An unstandardized choropleth map is one where the data is not averaged and is not able to have a great comparison to. Here in this map data is being compared in three different states. Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan. The map is showing ski shops in the different states.
In maps like this the data are standardized to allow comparison of the different types of data. Here to the left we have a map showing percentage of population of kids that are 14 years old in Canada. We are able to compare the different parts of canada by the different colors of green.
A univariate map is a choroplethic map that displays only one variable. This map here to the left shows the poverty in the United States of America. Since only one variable is being displayed it is easy to see what the map is trying to convey.
A bivariate choropleth map is one that has two different variables on one map. Maps of this type usually use colors to show the data they are trying to show. In this map it is showing the meian house values in the different counties in Ohio.
