Chapter 5: Statistics: Describing Data

Why learn to present, analyze, and describe data?

The following video provides many examples of how contextualized, visually beautiful numbers add meaning and relevance to our life.

In the following pages, we’ll explore how to make information meaningful in a visual format. This will help us solve some problems more quickly, and allow us better understanding for how to compare different types of information to make better decisions as a result.

Attributions

This chapter contains material taken from Math in Society (on OpenTextBookStore) by David Lippman, and is used under a CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC BY-SA 3.0 US) license.

This chapter contains material taken from of Math for the Liberal Arts (on Lumen Learning) by Lumen Learning, and is used under a CC BY: Attribution license.

License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Why It Matters: Statistics: Describing Data Copyright © by Gail Poitrast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Share This Book