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“A picture is worth a thousand words…”
Visual Displays of Data
People have used pictures for thousands of years (long before language) to communicate every kind of concept or idea.
Some picture are extremely complex and are open to numerous
interpretations and meanings.
Some images can have two
clear interpretations
Some images have only one meaning
Now, mathematicians like to draw pictures as well
Pictures that mathematicians use to represent relationships
are called….
GRAPHS
Graphs help us display the information that may be found in a collection of
data in a more meaningful way.
Mathematicians turn Data like this:
The most useful graph structure of all, in terms of investigation
and communication of mathematical modeling…
The Scatterplot(which evolves into the line graph….)
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