Business Analytics, Volume I

CHAPTER 4

Descriptive Analytics: Data Visualization

Chapter Highlights

Introduction

Basic Concepts in Data Visualization

Presenting Data: Collection and Presentation of Data

Organizing Data: An Example

Summarizing Quantitative Data: Frequency Distribution

Histogram: A Graph of Frequency Distribution

Example: Histogram: Summarizing Data and Examining the Distribution

Graphical Summary of Data

Graphical Display of Variation

Data visualization: Conventional and Simple Techniques

Stem-and-Leaf Plot

Box Plots

More Applications of Box Plots

Dot Plots

Bar Charts, a Cluster Bar Chart, and Stacked Bar Chart

Describing, Summarizing, and Graphing Categorical Variables

Creating Bar Chart from a Simple Tally

Example: Cross Tabulation with Two and Three Categorical ...