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Basic principles of graphing data

Princípios básicos na confecção de gráficos

Data visualization is a very important aspect of data analysis and of presentation. Focusing on the latter, this paper discusses various elements of constructing graphs for publications. Bad and good graphs are compared, and a checklist with graphical elements to be used while creating graphs is proposed.

visualization; graphs; statistics


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