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Figure 7. A line graph used inappropriately to depict the number of people playing different card games on Sunday and Wednesday.
Summary
Pie charts and bar charts can both be effective methods of portraying qualitative data. Bar charts are better when there are more than just a few categories and for comparing two or more distributions. Be careful to avoid creating misleading graphs.
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