2022 Introduction to Statistics in Research Mitchell 2nd ed

I N T R O T O R E S E A R C H : D A T A V I S U A L I Z A T I O N & C O M M O N S T A T T E S T S

Show you own data

This website has directions to download Gapminder Offline so you can use the animated features to show several characteristics over time. How neat would this be to show the rise of women leaders? Link to tutorial: https://vizabi.org/tutorials/2017/04/03/show-your-data/

Another point about GapMinder.org . GapMinder’s mission is “ to fight devastating ignorance with a fact- based worldview everyone can understand” (GapMinder, 2021).

Test Your Skills at www.gapminder.org

Figure 4: GapMinder.Org - Upgrade your worldview

Self-assessment: after visualizing the data

If the shape of the data distribution is approximately symmetric, how do you describe the center and spread?

Answer: Mean and standard deviation

If the shape of the data distribution is skewed or has outliers, how do you describe the center and spread?

Answer: median and interquartile range

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