Bar Charts

Bar charts are useful for:

  • Displaying responses to a “check all that apply” question, or a question for which responses add to more than 100%.
  • Displaying categories that do not have a distinct order.
 
2015 Program Participants’ Race/Ethnicity
Paired bar charts are useful for:

  • Comparing responses at different points in time.
  • Comparing responses between different groups, such as first-time participants and long-term participants.
 
2014 and 2015 Program Participants’ Interest
in Environmental Studies and Careers
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Stacked bar charts are useful for:

  • Displaying the distribution of responses that have a natural order (or scale) that adds up to 100% for multiple items within a domain of interest, such as workforce development.
 
2015 Participants’ Knowledge of & Attitudes about the Environment

Column Charts

Column charts are useful for:

  • Displaying the distribution of responses along a scale or continuum.
 
2015 Participants’ Length of Time in the Program
Paired column charts are useful for:

  • Comparing responses at different points in time.
  • Comparing responses between different groups.
 
2014 and 2015 Participants’ Length of Time in the Program
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Pie Charts

Pie charts are useful for:

  • Displaying responses that add up to 100% (generally when there are 5 or fewer response categories).
 
2015 Participants’ Knowledge of & Attitudes about the Environment
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Line Charts

Line charts are useful for:

  • Displaying trends over more than two points in time.
  • Displaying smaller changes over time.
 
Number of Program Participants Served Over Time

Word Clouds

Word clouds are useful for:

  • Displaying qualitative response themes in an accessible way, using size/prominence to indicate frequency of response.