Weather Charts – Let’s draw data – What is the weather like

In this excercise we will create two charts about the weather without using a computer. We will use a graphing paper, pencils and markers. Graphing paper is great for drawing data. It is devided by horizontal and vertical lines to create little squares across the pages. You can use these squares to measure your labelsContinue reading “Weather Charts – Let’s draw data – What is the weather like”

What is the weather like?

In this very simple data viz excercise we will build a bar chart to visualize the weather during a year. How many days in a year are sunny, rainy, windy, cloudy or snowy. Download the Google Sheet with the data. Here is what our bar chart looks like: Notice how we use different colors onContinue reading “What is the weather like?”

Weather Graphs – Temperature Changes Throughout the Year – a Line Chart

In one year the weather changes with the seasons. During fall and winter we expect colder temperatures while during spring and summer weather is expected to be warm even very hot on certain days. In this exercise we will build a line chart. Line charts are good to show us changes over a certain periodContinue reading “Weather Graphs – Temperature Changes Throughout the Year – a Line Chart”