B ITM 215 Information Lecture 9: Charts and Graphs

• School: SUNY Albany
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: B ITM 215 Information
• Professor: Ethan Sprissler

Document Summary

Itm 215 - lecture 9 - charts and graphs: a graphic or visual representation of data in a worksheet, based on descriptive (text) entries called category labels and numeric values. What is a chart? called data points: data series: a grouping of data points, enhance, summarize and communicate key points. Charts: effective chart effectively conveys message, 11 standard types of charts, sub-types (variations) and, custom chart types. Chart types relationships: column charts are used for displaying numbers, bar charts show numbers horizontally, ribbon. Clustered column chart-multiple data series include two or more sets of data. This chart illustrates four data series, one for each year. A legend is included to help the reader distinguish the multiple data series. Each data series is depicted in a different color. Reversing categories and data series-the role of categories and data series is reversed. This chart plots seven data series one for each college.