Geography Data Presentation

Advantages:

• Data is specific and measured
• Identify trends
• Can estimate
• Simple and quick to construct (5 mins)

Disadvantages:

• Scale can make it easy to misinterpret
• Only used with continuous data

Advantages:

• Easy to understand
• Shows both positive and negative
• Visual summary of large sets of data
• Estimate easily

Disadvantages:

• Difficult to show wide range 
• Requires additional explanation
• Can be easily manipulated to yield false impressions

Advantages:

• Summarise large sets of data in a visual form
• Minimal additional explanation needed
• Quick to construct - 10 mins

Disadvantages:

• Lots of equipment required e.g. protractor, pair of compasses
• Doesn't easily reveal exact values
• Easily manipulated

Advantages:

• Shows trends
• Shows minimum, maximum and outliers
• Keeps exact values and sample size
• Not a lot of equipment

Disadvantages:

• Flat trend line gives inconclusive results
• Can't be used for anything measured

Advantages:

• Easily compared
• Shows both positive and negative
• Simple and quick to contrsuct - 5 mins

Disadvantages:

• Based on qualititative so it's subjective
• Can't be used for anything measured

Advantages:

• Can compare 3 components at once
• Large amount of data can be plotted
• Easy to identify trends

Disadvantages:

• Can be difficult to understand 
• Very difficult to construct
• Data must be in percentages

Advantages:

• Visual - easy to see patterns
• Spatial
• Able to compare

Disadvantages:

• Hard to plot and construct
• Hard to spot anomalies
• Limited use for certain data