Overall Pattern

Overall Pattern

Introduction

When data is collected and displayed on a graph, it often shows an overall pattern. Identifying this pattern helps describe how the data is distributed and makes it easier to notice features such as clusters, gaps, and unusual v...

Suppose your class records the number of books each student read during the summer. Your teacher displays the data on a dot plot.

Instead of looking at each value one by one, you can look at the overall pattern of the data.

If the dots are balanced on both sides of the center, the distribution is symmetric.

If most dots are gat...