Notebook AtlasSURG0002 · Research methods: go to the course map

AtlasFoundations · start here

Reading a graph

  1. What is data?
  2. Reading a graph

Fig. 1

Reading a graph: CFU-F colonies per dish (colonies), DNA content over 21 days (µg), 200 MSC diameters (µm)

Fig. 1: a simple bar chart, "CFU-F colonies per dish by MSC source". Across: where the cells came from. Up: how many colonies grew in a dish. Bars: Marrow-derived 45, Fat-derived 52.

You tapped
— (tap an axis, a bar or a point)
Colonies per dish
Marrow 45 · Fat 52

Chart Studio · First look

Chart chart

Level 1 · First look · Foundations (ext)

Find what a graph is about and read one value off it.

Read any course graph: what each axis shows and in what units, what a bar or point stands for, and how the scale can mislead.

ext A Foundations primer: written for beginners, not from the slides.

  1. Two axes, two questions (the step you are on)

    On a weather chart, across is when and up is how much.

    On a weather chart, across is when and up is how much; this chart works the same way. Tap an axis to read what it measures: — (tap an axis, a bar or a point).

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