W10

• Importance of Presentations of Data

  Data will not be useful and important unless they are well presented in research
• Researcher's role


  Think of ways and means of how well the data be presented to give justice to the effort wasted in the gathering of data
• Good presentation of data speaks for itself
• People reading, will already understand the results of the study although the write up, its analysis and interpretation will complete the entire idea of what transcribe in the research
• Different Designs in Data Presentation

  The next step after the gathering of data is to create the best design in its presentation
• A well presented data helps in one way or another create interest in the reader of its intended meaning and contributions to society
• Ways of presenting data

  • Tables
  • Graphs
• Tables


  • Used to present numerical data in a wide variety of publications from newspaper, journals, and textbooks
  • The format in which most numerical data are initially stored, analyzed and use as a means of interpreting it
  • Rows and columns should be arranged in progression
  • Tables should be made simple for easy interpretation
  • All tables should have a title
  • Avoid formatting your task as a spreadsheet
  • Large gap between columns should be avoided
  • Prepare a list of tables with their page number
• Graphs


  • Good means of describing exploring or summarizing numerical data because visual image can simplify complex information
  • Help the reader interpret the data
• Types of graphs


  • Bar graphs
  • Histogram
  • Pie Charts
  • Line graphs
• Bar graphs


  Used to display and compare the number, frequency or other measures to present data
• Histogram


  Special form of bar graph where the data represent a continuous data rather than discrete categories
• Pie Charts


  Visual way of displaying how the total data are distributed between different categories
• Line graphs


  Used to show time series data of how one or more variables vary over a continuous period of time