I need help with responses to these discussions

In response to at least two of your peers, address the following:

• Do you think your peer's data visualization clarifies the data or makes it more confusing? Why and how so?

I made two visualizations; the first one shows the product by month sales, each color identifying the monthly profit for that item, and the second one shows the monthly business sales. These charts allow me to identify my top-selling products, the sopapillas, and queso fresco. Additionally, I was able to identify the slow-moving product that I should discontinue and add new items to increase profit. Regarding the monthly sales chart, I see the potential for improvements because we still have a steady stream of customers. I believe that if we change the low-profit products, we can increase sales. I selected the bar cluster and bar graphs; I feel it was the best one that represents my data. I would change a couple of things to present my information to my audience better, only if I knew how. It was tough for me to do this much.

-Maria

Hi Class & Professor!

In this discussion, we were to take on the role of a new restaurant owner who is checking on sales since the opening of the restaurant in January. We were to create visualizations that illustrate which items are selling well and how the business is doing month by month.

For my first visualization, I used a line chart to show the total sales for each month. I summed up the total food sales each month and was able to show that sales are currently in a decline with their lowest sales of the four months, $20,489.90. A line chart was used here to visually show the decline or incline of sales in a simple, linear model. Line charts are recommended to use when trying to show changes over a period of time and in our example, it was total sales over four months. I would continue to use this line chart to track sales.

In my second chart, I used a pie chart to show which food sold most overall, which was the restaurants sopapillas by a landslide. I used a pie chart here so the audience could quickly and easily determine which food had the biggest piece of the pie. Pie charts are recommended when trying to show parts of a whole. This chart might misrepresent best selling items since the item could have had an extraordinary month because of a promotional sale or other advertisement and then fall off the next month but it would still show it sold best overall.

In my final chart, I used a bar graph to show the sales each month for each food item. You can still see here that the restaurants sopapillas are a high selling item, but in March queso fresco sold more and in April guava bars sold more. A bar chart is recommended to show changes over time and was used to reflect the sales for each item, by the month. I thought this was a more comprehensive representation of the sales by food item.

CHART 1

CHART 2

CHART 3

-Shannon