Question

Find an online or print media article that pertains to a topic in your field of study. The article must include a visually display (pie chart, bar chart, histogram, stemplot, boxplot or other) to describe the distribution of a variable. (better in computer science field)

(3 points) Provide a link, screen shot or picture of the article in your post. Make sure links work and/or pic is visible!

(2 points) State your field of study (or the field of this article Example: Post-secondary Education).

(2 points) Identify the variable that is being discussed and visualized (Example: Tuition Cost)   

(2 point) Is the variable categorical or quantitative?

(2 points) Describe the distribution of the variable using the given visual display.

(1 point) If applicable, name one other type of plot that would be appropriate for the type of variable displayed.

Answer 1

(a) LINK :- https://www2.open.ac.uk/students/skillsforstudy/doc/working-with-charts-graphs-and-tables-toolkit.pdf (The aricle is on page 9)

(b) field of study:-

amount of homework and television that children in their last year of primary school were doing, while they were aged about 11 or 12.

(c) variable:-

hours spend on television, hours spend on homework.

(d) Quantitative variables are numerical variables: counts, percents, or numbers.

Categorical variables are descriptions of groups or things, like “breeds of dog” or “voting preference”.

Since these are numbers So these are quantitative variables.

(e)

HOMEWORK (approx) TELEVISION(approx)

VERY LITTLE TIME 45 2

UPTO 1 HOUR 43 21

1-2 HRS 9 26

2-3 HRS 3 51

(f) pie charts can be used.one for homework and other for television.

In that pie chart show the percentage of students having different study time with different colours.