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1. ANALYZING CHARTS
María Jesús Campos Fernández.
learningfromgeography.wikispaces.com

2. What is a graph/chart?
 Graphs use
numbers and
statistics to present
information visually
 The most common
types of charts are:
 Line graphs
 Bar charts
 Pie charts

4. Line graphs
 To show the evolution of something over time

5. Bar charts
 To compare different aspects.

6. Pie chart
 To show how an issue is divided into different
parts or sectors.

7. How to analyze a chart or
diagram
 Analysis and
Description:
1. What kind of graph is
it? (line graph, bar
chart, pie chart…)
2. What do the title, key,
axes, labels, sectors…
tell you?
3. What similar things
can you see?
4. What differences or
changes can you see?
 The chart shows
that…
 As we can see…
 …incrased in…
 ….remains constant
 More/Less than half of
….
 …reached a peak
of…afterwards…

8.  Interpretation:
1. What reasons/causes
explain the
changes/differences
you identified?
2. What are the main
aspects you get from
the chart?
 If you compare the
figures for…and…,
you can see…
 …shows a/an
increrase/decrease/
steady growth/slight
rise/decline…

9.  Conclusion and
Personal View:
1. What do the results tell
you about the topic?
2. Are there any missing
information in the chart?
3. Conect the information
you have obtained from
the chart with the
information you master
about the topic and give
your personal view of the
topic.
 The chart doesn’t say
anything about…
 Connected to…
 The reasons that
explain the data of the
chart are…
 It is an interesting/
useful/not
interesting/not useful
source of information
because…

10. Developed by María Jesús Campos
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Sources:
http://www2.klett.de/sixcms/media.php/229/DO0410