Presentation on theme: "Creating Graphs: Classic Mistakes"— Presentation transcript:
1Creating Graphs: Classic Mistakes The following slides each contain a graph.These graphs have a variety of errors: How many canyou spot?Remember that the principles of constructing graphs are the same whether you are using them in a presentation or in a written report…however, in scientific reports colours are NOT generally used, whereas in a presentation it may be useful to use colours – but this needs careful planning!
2Creating Graphs: Classic Mistakes To start you off, the graph on the following slide has numerous errors – see how many you can identify…….Now check your ideas with the answers provided on slide 4…Now work through the remaining slides to see how many more errors in the graphs presented you can find…..And remember that colours on graphs should only be used in oral presentations…..
4What Were the Errors? Graph is too small (and poorly positioned) Title is uninformativey-axis label is positioned incorrectlyNo error bars givenInappropriate scale on y-axisNon-standard format of text (figure legend)Poor use of colours (red & green!)Now try and spot the errors on the following graphs……….