Data Visualisation

Question 1

What is data visualisation?

Answer 1

It is about presenting the data in visual formats, such as graphs, charts, and maps.

Question 2

Why do we visualise data?

Answer 2

So that we can highlight the most relevant insights, and spot patterns, trends, and outliers.

Question 3

What are the two approaches to visualising data?

Answer 3

Exploratory Data which is the initial phase of the data process to discover patterns, relationships, and trends

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Exploratory data which is used to communicate findings and insights to an audience in order to educate, inform, or persuade, rather than to discover new information from the data.

Question 4

What type of visualisations do you find in Exploratory data?

Answer 4

• Scatter plots
• heat maps
• histograms

Question 5

What type of visualisations do you find in Explanatory data?

Answer 5

• bar/ column charts
• line charts
• pie charts
• stacked bar graph
• Area chart