Links to related charts and graphs

Below are some links to websites with useful information, guides and videos on different ways to represent data visually. Email us with your favourites, and we will add them to the list.

Bar charts

• Stat Trek's quick guide to bar charts and histograms, including their differences.

Histograms

• Big Picture's own PowerPoint presentation with tips for drawing your own histogram.
• A clear, step-by-step guide to creating histograms and bar charts by Mr Barton Maths.
• From the MrArnoldsMaths YouTube channel, this video shows you how to produce a histogram.

Pie charts

• Clear, step-by-step instructions for hand-drawing a pie chart from Mr Barton.
• This video tutorial takes you through a worked example for drawing a pie chart.

Line graphs and error bars

• TF Scientist's how to draw a scientific graph.
• Clear instructions on how to create a line graph, as well as useful pointers, from Queen's University Belfast.
• For students with a high level of understanding, this site shows how to interpret the information provided by error bars.

Scatter graphs

• This page covers everything from selecting axes to interpreting the line of best fit, by Mr Barton Maths.
• Stat Trek's guide to the scatter plot is accompanied by a video tutorial.
• BBC Bitesize's guide to ‘bad graphs’.

Normal distribution

Not strictly a type of chart or graph, but a distribution of data.

• From the MrArnoldsMaths YouTube channel, this video is a guide to the normal distribution.
• The StatWeb site has information on the normal distribution (select this option from the left-hand menu).

This is part of the online content for ‘Big Picture: Number Crunching’.