JKII Session III Presenting visual information

Graphs and charts

Charts and graphs measure various statistics and are helpful when presenting large amounts of
information that need to be understood quickly. This includes: facts and figures, statistical
information, profit and loss, polling information, etc.

What are graphs used for in sports science? What information do we have to include when plotting a
graph?

1.      World population – describing trends

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/World-Population-1800-2100.svg/588px-World
-Population-1800-2100.svg.png

World population estimates from 1800 to 2100, based on "high", "medium" and "low" United Nations
projections in 2010 (colored red, orange and green) and US Census Bureau historical estimates (in
black). Actual recorded population figures are colored in blue.

a)      Complete the gaps with the words below:

seen         range        show         remain        experienced        stood        declined
increase        peaked

The world population has (1)  ___________ continuous growth since the end of the Great Famine and
the Black Death in 1350, when it (2)  ___________ at around 370 million. The highest rates of
growth – global population increases above 1.8% per year – were (3) ___________briefly during the
1950s, and for a longer period during the 1960s and 1970s. The growth rate (4) ____________ at 2.2%
in 1963, then (5) ____________ to below 1.1% by 2012. Total annual births were highest in the late
1980s at about 138 million, and are now expected to (6) _________ essentially constant at their
2011 level of 134 million, while deaths number 56 million per year, and are expected to (7)
___________ to 80 million per year by 2040.

Current UN projections (8) ____________ a continued increase in population in the near future (but
a steady decline in the population growth rate), with the global population expected to reach
between 8.3 and 10.9 billion by 2050. UN Population Division estimates for the year 2150 (9)
___________ between 3.2 and 24.8 billion; mathematical modeling supports the lower estimate. Some
analysts have questioned the sustainability of further world population growth, highlighting the
growing pressures on the environment, global food supplies, and energy resources.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population)

b)        Now fill in the missing prepositions:

To peak _____ 17%

To increase  ______ 2% / to increase  ________ 2%

To decline _______ below 3 billion

To range  _______ 4.5 and 5.3 billion / to range ____ A to Z

c)        Which of the verbs below can be used to refer to diagrams?

illustrates       shows       believes           suggests       indicates       represents
states    demonstrates          argues        reflects


2.      Types of graphs

Match the types of graphs on the left below with their respective charts. Then complete the
sentences below.

Textové pole: 1
(http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/available-chart-types-HA010342187.aspx)


A column chart

A line chart

A pie chart

A bar
chart
                                      2


5


3


4

An XY (scatter) chart

A stock chart

A doughnut chart

A bubble chart



  8


 7


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a)      ________________ are often a good choice to show comparisons among data.

b)      ________________ are well suited to showing change over time.

c)      ___________  are well suited for showing parts of a whole.

d)      Like a pie chart, a __________ shows the relationship of parts to a whole, but it can
contain more than one data series.

e)      You could use a ___________chart to indicate the fluctuation of daily or annual
temperatures.






3.      Complete the following tables supplying the appropriate vocabulary.

                                          VERB

                                                     NOUN

                                          to rise

                                          to increase

                                          to improve

                                          to fall

                                          to decrease

                                          to recover

                                          to decline

                                          to grow



                                 ADJECTIVE


                                          ADVERB


                                                  HOW MUCH CHANGE?

                                 slight

                                          slightly

                                                  very small

                                 sharp

                                 dramatic

                                 steady


4.      Examining graphic material

Study the graphs below. What information does it show?


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Comparison_gender_life_expectancy_CIA_fact
book.svg/400px-Comparison_gender_life_expectancy_CIA_factbook.svg.png

Comparison of male and female life expectancy at birth for countries and territories as defined in
the 2011 CIA Factbook, with selected bubbles labelled. The dotted line corresponds to equal female
and male life expectancy. The apparent 3D volumes of the bubbles are linearly proportional to their
population. (wikipedia.org)

File:Comparison subsaharan life expectancy.svg