Data presentation
What Data presentation means in Geography GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
Showing data through graphs and charts such as line charts, bar charts, pie charts, pictograms, histograms with equal class intervals, divided bar, scattergraphs and population pyramids.
The selection and accurate use of appropriate methods to show fieldwork data once it has been collected.
Topics that use Data presentation
- Graphical skills (AQA GCSE)
- Section B: Fieldwork (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Continuous data
- Discrete data
- Cartographic methods
- Cartographical presentation
- Choropleth maps
- Contour lines
- Data analysis
- Data evaluation
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