Data Storytelling for Business

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Which of the following is useful when you have two time periods or points of comparison and want to quickly show relative increases and decreases or differences across various categories between the two data points? Pie chart, Slopegraph, Heatmap, Stacked horizontal bar chart

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Slopegraph

Front

Chart borders and background shading are unnecessary because of which Gestalt principle?

Back

Closure

Front

Things that are colored the same are seen as together according to what Gestalt Principle?

Back

Similarity

Front

What type of title should you use for a proper data story?

Back

An action title

Front

What number serves as a guide to how effectively our chart shows the data?

Back

Data-Ink Ratio

Front

Which of these visuals is most commonly used to show the relationship between two continuous variables? Histogram, Scatter plot, Line Bar, Bar Chart

Back

Scatter plot

Front

Which type of visualization should never be used in a business setting? Options: Pie Chart, 100% Stacked Bar Chart, 100% Stacked Area Chart, 3D Chart

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3D Chart

Front

Which of these visuals is most commonly used to show the distribution of a single continuous variable? Histogram, Scatter plot, Line Bar, Bar Chart

Back

Histogram

Front

When should we use a table instead of a chart?

Back

When we are interested in looking up specific values in the data set

Front

What is an appropriate gap width between the bars in a bar chart?

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