1. Choosing the Right Graph
by: Brad Bishop and

2. Summary:
We chose a scatter plot to show how many people attended the X GAMES.
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X GAMES

3. Purpose: Scatter plots are mostly used to show trends in data.
Analysis: In this graph, it showed how many people attended the X
GAMES. It shows that X Games Five had the highest amount of
people in attendance.

4. Summary:
We chose a bar graph to show the most popular songs downloaded from
ITunes.
FREQUENCY
There It Go!, Juelz Santana
Sugar, We're Going Down, Fall Out Boy
Gol Digger, Kanya West
Dance, Dance, Fall Out Boy
Laffy Taffy, D4L
Stickwitu, The Pussycat Dolls FREQUENCY
Photograph, Nickleback
My Humps, Black Eyed Peas
Run it!, Chris Brown
Hung Up, Madonna
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5. Purpose: Bar graphs are used to show amounts or the number of times a
value occurs
Analysis: This graph shows the most popular songs downloaded from
ITunes. Hung up, by Madonna was the most popular song , and There
It Go!, by Juelz Santana was the least popular.

6. Summary: We choose a line graph to show MTV music Videos and there time
at #1 on the billboard.
Weeks at #1
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Song Titles

7. Purpose: The purpose of a Line Graph is to plot changes and data over time.
Analysis: This graph show how long the popular
MTV music videos stayed on top in 1st place.
Gwen Stefani’s Hollaback Girl Stayed in 1st the
longest, the on that stayed the least amount of
time was Wake Up by Hillary Duff.

8. Summary: This is a pie chart graph of popular comic books their
issue, publisher, price, and estimated sales.
Batman 651 2.5 DC
Ultimate Spider- Est. sales 4%
Man 92 2.5 Marvel
4%
Ultimate X-Men 68 2.5 Marvel
4%
Ms Marvel 1 2.99 Marvel Infinite Crisis 5 New Avengers 17 2.5 Marvel
4% 3.99 DC 7%
11%
Ultimate Spider-
Man 91 2.5 Marvel
4%
All Star Superman 3 2.99 DC
X-Men Deadly Genesis 5 3.5 6%
Marvel
4%
Wolverine 40 2.99 Marvel New Avengers Illuminati
4% Sp N/A 3.99 Marvel
Ultimate Extinction 3 2.99 6%
Marvel
4% Superman Batman 24(Res)
Uncanny X- 2.99 DC
men 471 X-men 184 2.5 Marvel
6%
2.5 Marvel 4%
4% Ultimates 2 10 2.99 Marvel
Infinite Crisis 5%
Uncanny X-men 470 2.5 Secret Files 2006 Amazing Spider-Man
Marvel 470 5.99 DC Green Lantern 10 2.99 DC 530 2.5 Marvel
4% 4% 4% 5%

9. Purpose: A pie chart is used to show what percent a particular item represents
of the data series
Analysis: We choose the pie chart to represent
our data, it shows the highest and lowest of
comic books and their estimated sales. Infinite
Crisis 5 being the highest.