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Notes - Diagrammatic Presentation

This document discusses bar diagrams and their features. It defines a bar diagram as a presentation of data using bars or rectangles. The key features are that bars can be vertically or horizontally arranged on a common baseline or axis, with width being equal but height varying according to variable values. Bar diagrams allow for easy understanding, simplified presentation, revealing of hidden facts, quick grasping of information, and easy comparison of data. The document then describes different types of bar diagrams, including simple, multiple, sub-divided, percentage sub-divided, and pie or circular diagrams.

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Notes - Diagrammatic Presentation

This document discusses bar diagrams and their features. It defines a bar diagram as a presentation of data using bars or rectangles. The key features are that bars can be vertically or horizontally arranged on a common baseline or axis, with width being equal but height varying according to variable values. Bar diagrams allow for easy understanding, simplified presentation, revealing of hidden facts, quick grasping of information, and easy comparison of data. The document then describes different types of bar diagrams, including simple, multiple, sub-divided, percentage sub-divided, and pie or circular diagrams.

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Chapter- Diagrammatic Presentation

Bar Diagrams
As the name suggests, when data is presented in form of bars or rectangles, it is termed to be a bar diagram.

Features of Bar Diagram

• The rectangular box in a bar diagram is known as a bar. It represents the value of a variable.
• These bars can be either vertically or horizontally arranged.
• Bars are equidistant from each other.
• Each bar originates from a common baseline or a common axis.
• The width of bars remain same but the height changes, according to the value of a variable, to denote
the difference between their values.
• Unless they are in a specific order, the convention is that bars can be arranged in an ascending or
descending order.

Advantages of Diagrammatic Data Presentation

• Easy to understand – Diagrammatic data presentation makes it easier for a common man to
understand the data. Diagrams are usually attractive and impressive and many newspapers and
magazines use them frequently to explain certain facts or phenomena. Modern advertising campaigns
also use diagrams.

• Simplified Presentation – You can represent large volumes of complex data in a simplified and
intelligible form using diagrams.

• Reveals hidden facts – When you classify and tabulate data, some facts are not revealed. Diagrammatic
data presentation helps in bringing out these facts and also relations.

• Quick to grasp – Usually, when the data is represented using diagrams, people can grasp it quickly.

• Easy to compare – Diagrams make it easier to compare data.

• Universally accepted – Almost all fields of study like Business, economics, social
institutions, administration, etc. use diagrams. Therefore, they have universal acceptability.

TYPES OF BAR DIAGRAM


1. Simple Bar Diagram
These are the most basic type of bar diagrams. A simple bar diagram represents only a single set of
numerical data.
2. Multiple Bar Diagram- Unlike single bar diagram, a multiple bar diagram can represent two or
more sets of numerical data on the same bar diagram. Generally, these are constructed to facilitate
comparison between two entities like average height and average weight, birth rates and death rates
etc.

3. Sub-divided or Differential Bar Diagrams


Sub-divided bar diagrams are useful when we need to represent the total values and
the contribution of various sections of the total simultaneously. The different sections are shaded with
different colours in the same bar.

4. Percentage sub- divided Bar Diagrams


This is derived further from the subdivided bar diagrams. In this, each bar has the same height that
represents 100 percent of the Y-axis in totality. Further, each bar is divided into sections based on
percentages calculated according to the contribution of these sections.
5. Pie or Circular Diagrams
In addition to bar diagrams, pie diagrams are also widely used to pictorially represent data. In this, a
circle is divided into various segments which are decided on the basis of percentages. Which means
the circle is divided into sectors depending on various percentages.

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