Chapter 2

A simpler, less cluttered alternative to an area chart is a ___

line chart

An area chart is most similar to a ___

line chart

Which of the following charts should be used to display data over time?

line chart

Which goal is achieved by using scatter charts and bubble charts?

to show distribution

which of these is used to visualize hierarchical data along multiple dimensions?

tree map

A heat map is a graphical representation of data that uses color to indicate magnitude between

two dimensions

Which type of chart is used to show composition?

Bar chart

Why are pie charts preferred over bar charts?

Bar charts are preferred over pie charts.

Which of these types of chart is best suited for comparing variables by groups?

Clustered column (bar) chart

A line chart often displays which of these kinds of data?

time series

Should a bar chart or a pie chart be used to display categorical data and why?

A bar chart—Science has shown that we are better at assessing differences in length than angle and area

Why are bar charts preferred over pie charts?

Science has shown that we are better at assessing differences in length than angle and area

Which of these chart types is most appropriate to visualize the relationship between three quantitative variables?

bubble chart

Bar charts and column charts are helpful in making comparisons between ____________

categorical variables

Which of these is a visual method to display data?

chart

An alternative for a stacked column chart when comparing more than two quantitative variables in each category is a _____.

cluster column chart

Which of these is an appropriate alternative to a radar chart?

cluster column chart

A heat map is a two-dimensional graphical representation of data that uses which of these preattentive attributes to indicate magnitude?

color

What makes up the whole of an entity under consideration is known as _________

composition

To achieve the colored and shading effect for a heat map in Excel, use the options in the ____________ menu.

conditional formatting

A line chart would be more appropriate than a bar chart if the __

data collected have an important time series component denoted by the x-axis

How items are dispersed is known as _________.

distribution

Which of these chart types is most appropriate to summarize data about categories?

pie chart

the relative order of items is known as

ranking

How two variables are related to one another is known as _

relationship