In technical communication, data is often represented visually, perhaps through the use of graphs, tables, or charts. This discussion topic is designed to give you practice in identifying flaws in data visualization.

In completing this discussion topic, you will first want to peruse the three resources in the section titledVisualization of Data inContent for week 7.

For each of the following four questions, a couple of sentences.

1. Which of the following graphs represents the data more accurately? Why?

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