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The document explains the importance of charts in data visualization and outlines common types of charts including bar charts, grouped bar charts, line charts, and pie charts. It also provides guidance on how to read and describe charts, emphasizing the need to introduce the chart and detail its information. Additionally, a vocabulary bank is included to help describe changes in data trends.

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The document explains the importance of charts in data visualization and outlines common types of charts including bar charts, grouped bar charts, line charts, and pie charts. It also provides guidance on how to read and describe charts, emphasizing the need to introduce the chart and detail its information. Additionally, a vocabulary bank is included to help describe changes in data trends.

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Chart

Charts are an important aspect of working with data because they make it easier to understand
by putting a lot of information into a little space. They can help someone who is looking at the data for
the first time understand it better.

Types of the common charts:

1. Bar Chart

A bar chart is a data visualization that compares various groups or categories using rectangular
bars. Each bar's height or length reflects the value it represents, making visual comparisons of values
across categories simple. Bars are usually equally distributed for readability and can be displayed either
vertically or horizontally. Bar charts are frequently used to illustrate data variation between different
categories, track changes over time, and display comparisons.

2. Grouped Bar Chart

A grouped bar chart compares many subcategories within the main categories by showing
several bars grouped together for each category. The bars inside each group, which are identified by
color or pattern, represent various categories that are grouped under the primary category. Several
data series can be directly compared side by side within the same category using this format.
3. Line Chart

A line chart is a type of graph used to display data points connected by straight lines, typically
to show trends or changes over time. Every point on the chart illustrates a value at a specific point in
time or for a certain type of data. The lines that join the points show how the data changed or moved
over time. They are commonly used in fields such as finance, science, and business to visualize
changes and relationships over intervals.

4. Pie Chart

A pie chart is a round statistical image that is divided into parts to show how numbers relate to
each other in a whole. Each pie slice, that refers to its value, represents the contribution of a category
to the total. Pie charts are helpful for displaying proportional or percentage data, which makes it simple
to quickly compare different parts of a total.
How to read the chart:

There are two things you need to write.

1. Introduce the chart

You need to begin your writing with one sentence to introduce the chart by stating the title of
the chart.

2. Give the detail information about the chart

After introducing the chart, you should provide more detailed information about the chart. You
can start by looking at the graph and search what things are similar and what things are
different.

Vocabulary bank to describe the chart:

Verb to describe ⇧ Verb to describe ⇩ Verb to describe ⇨ Adverbs


(upwards) (downwards) (stable)

Rise Fall Stay Significantly


Go up Drop Remain Rapidly
Increase Go down Steady Quickly
Jump Decline Constant Sharply
Grow Decrease syable Slightly
Climb Sink Gradually
Slowly
Steadily

Example :

The line graph compares the fast food consumption of teenagers in Australia between 1975 and
2000, a period of 25 years. In 1975, the most popular fast food with Australian teenagers was fish and
chips, being eaten 100 times a year. Then, the consumption of fish and chips gradually declined over
the 25 year timescale to finish at just under 40. Pizza consumption increased gradually until it overtook
the consumption of fish and chips in 1990. It then had a steady rate from 1995 to 2000. The biggest
rise was seen in hamburgers as they were eaten increased sharply throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s.

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