Rubric for graphing or Criteria for making good graphs
- Title, an appropriate and descriptive
- may contain information about both axes
- Axes
- Axes should be labeled
- Units on each axis
- Numbers at regular intervals
- Dependent and independent variables on correct axes
- Scaling is appropriate
- Clear data points (with easy to distinguish symbols)
- Key (plotting more than one set of data with different
symbols, colors, patterns …)
- Range or Scaling
- Axes should be scaled appropriately.
- Appropriate choice of type of graph
- Pie charts - used to represent %s or parts of a
whole
- Bar graphs – for categorical, discontinuous data sets
- Scatter & Line graphs – for continuous data sets
- Appropriate line-fitting
- best-fit line
- curve fitting
- “connecting dots”
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