Three things it tells me: 1. The vast majority of alcohol consumers have had at least one hangover. 2. Less than half of students have weekly hangovers. 3. I think that the second and third bars are exclusive and of a common whole, which means that 40% of college students have at least one hangover [...]
Three Things
Phone Networks: Three Things & COMPARABLE
Three Things this chart says: 1. On the Android platform, more people use mobile exclusively than mobile + Wi-fi. 2. On the iPhone, it’s reversed — most people use wi-fi + mobile. 3. Kind of hard to dig a third thing out here, but at 71%, using wi-fi on an iPhone is pretty normal. [...]
3 + C: Polar Ice
1. Name three things this graph tells you. Deal with the significance of the standard deviation if possible. 2. Name three things it doesn’t. 3. Apply at least one aspect of the COMPARABLE framework to it explicitly.
3 + C: Polar Ice / Age of Ice (Example)
1. Name three things this graph tells you and three things this graph does NOT tell you. A) The first chart shows the distribution of the ice at two times in the past year. B) The first chart does NOT necessarily show long term shrinkage of the ice caps, what is being demonstrated here is the [...]
3 + C: Deficit Reduction
From http://www.dartmouth.edu/~benv/files/poll%20responses%20by%20party%20ID.pdf YouGov interviewed 1056 respondents who were then matched down to a sample of 1000 to produce the final dataset. The respondents were matched on gender, age, race, education, party identification, ideology, and political interest. YouGov then weighted the matched set of survey respondents to known marginal for the general population of the [...]

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