Question

I'm doing a stats project and we had to survey students and now we have to make graphs based on the data we collected. My question is what is the best graph to use for each one.

Age

Cumulative GPA

What make of car you drive (or none)

What social media site/app do you use most frequently?

What is the highest level of education you plan to pursue after graduation?

What is your favorite breakfast food?

What is your favorite ice cream flavor?

What is your favorite video game?

What music genre do you listen to most often?

What is your favorite sport to play?

What is your favorite subject in school?

What is your political affiliation?

Where do you most frequently go for lunch?

How many hours per week do you spend on school work outside of the regular school day?

How many hours per week do you work at a job?

What is your weekly income at your current job if any?

How many minutes per day do you spend on social media?

How many “friends” do you have on social media?

On average, how many hours of sleep do you get per night?

How many apps do you have on your phone?

How many hours per week do you spend playing sports?

How many hours per week do you spend watching tv or movies?

Rank your level of academia

Rank your fitness level

Rank your diet / nutrition level

Answer 1

The four most common are probably line graphs,

i) bar graphs

ii) histograms,

iii)pie charts, and

iv) Cartesian graphs. They are generally used for, and best for, quite different things.

• Bar graphs to show numbers that are independent of each other. Example data might include things like the number of people who preferred each of Chinese takeaways, Indian takeaways and fish and chips.
• Pie charts to show you how a whole is divided into different parts. You might, for example, want to show how a budget had been spent on different items in a particular year.
• Line graphs show you how numbers have changed over time. They are used when you have data that are connected, and to show trends, for example, average night time temperature in each month of the year.
• Cartesian graphs have numbers on both axes, which therefore allow you to show how changes in one thing affect another. These are widely used in mathematics, and particularly in Algebra.

• Age - histogram/pie

• Cumulative GPA = histogam/bar

  What make of car you drive (or none) = pie chart

  What social media site/app do you use most frequently? = pie/bar chart

  What is the highest level of education you plan to pursue after graduation? = bar chart

  What is your favorite breakfast food? = pie chart

  What is your favorite ice cream flavor? = pie/bar chart

  What is your favorite video game? = pie / bar chart

  What music genre do you listen to most often? pie/histogram

  What is your favorite sport to play? = pie/bar chart

  What is your favorite subject in school? = pie chart

  What is your political affiliation? = line chart

  Where do you most frequently go for lunch? histogram/pie/bar chart

  How many hours per week do you spend on school work outside of the regular school day? bar chart

  How many hours per week do you work at a job? = bar/pie chart

  What is your weekly income at your current job if any? = bar/pie chart

  How many minutes per day do you spend on social media? = bar plot

  How many “friends” do you have on social media? = pie chart

  On average, how many hours of sleep do you get per night? =line chart

  How many apps do you have on your phone? = bar chart/ multiple bar diagram

  How many hours per week do you spend playing sports? = multiple bar diagram

  How many hours per week do you spend watching tv or movies?= sub divided bar diagram

  Rank your level of academia = line chart

  Rank your fitness level = line chart /pie chart

  Rank your diet / nutrition level = bar chart