© Seema Acharya and Subhashini Chellappan 2017

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8. Chart Forms

Seema Acharya and Subhashini Chellappan2

(1)Pune, Maharashtra, India

(2)Bangalore, Karnataka, India

“Signals always point to something. In this sense, a signal is not a thing but a relationship. Data becomes useful knowledge of something that matters when it builds a bridge between a question and an answer. This connection is the signal.”

—Stephen Few, founder - Perceptual Edge, in his book, Signal:​ Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise

Chapter 7 introduced us to the basics of descriptive statistics . We learned about the varied forms in which measures can be aggregated, such as SUM, AVERAGE, ...

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