Saturday, November 14, 2009

Metal Density Bar Chart



Which metal is the most dense?

Which metal is the least dense?

Friday, November 13, 2009

Final Exam Histogram



What range of scores does the pink bar represent?

How many students got between 80 and 100 on the final exam?

What score range was the most frequent? Least?

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Countries and Oil Reserves



From http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/tag/data/

Which country has the greatest oil reserves?

Which country in South America has the most oil?

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Container Shipping Companies



The data visualization above represents the world's 10 largest container shipping companies by TEU capacity.

Which container shipping company has the greatest TEU capacity?

Use the size of the circle to help you estimate the TEU capacity of CSCL.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Phone Comparison




What trends do you see for each of the three types of phones?

When did Blackberry reach its highest percentage of owners?

If the trends continue, what do you predict will happen to each of the three types of phones?

Monday, November 9, 2009

Housing in Baltimore




About how many new real estate listings were there in Baltimore in 2002? In 2009?

When was the peak in new real estate listings?

Describe the relationship of new contracts to new listings.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Internet Use

79% of American adults used the internet in 2009, up from 67% in Feb. 2005
46% of online American adults 18 and older use a social networking site like MySpace, Facebook or LinkedIn, up from 8% in February 2005.
65% of teens 12-17 use online social networks as of Feb 2008, up from 58% in 2007 and 55% in 2006.
As of August 2009, Facebook was the most popular online social network for American adults 18 and older.
From http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/10/25/graphic-the-rise-of-social-networking-with-american-adults/

Choose any of the above data and make an appropriate graph or graphs to represent it. You do not have to include everything, just choose what is most interesting to you.