Explore resources on data visualisation and summary
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Five principles of good graphs
You may have met five principles for creating good graphs in a course or seminar given by the Statistical Consulting Centre.
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Why you shouldn’t use pie charts
Pie charts and their close cousins, doughnut charts, are part of our staple diet of graphs of data – we find them on blogs, in newspapers, in textbooks and in presentations at work.
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Graphing complexity
Putting together a graph to summarise a data set where multiple explanatory variables are involved.
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Understanding boxplots
A boxplot is a visualisation of a numerical variable based on summary statistics.
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Error bars on graphs
In many publications, you will see error bars around an estimate, such as a mean or a mean difference.