Box plot

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A boxplot, or box and whisker diagram provides a simple graphical summary of a set of data. This box plot is showing scores in different subjects including sociology, physics, geography, and math.

Histogram

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A Histogram is a graphical display of tabulated frequencies. The Histogram uses bars to signify the tabulated frequencies. This histogram is showing the number of weeks of waiting for a contraceptive order.

Parallel coordinate graph

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A parallel coordinate graph is a graph that plots its variables on a vertical axis and is particularly helpful when plotting large amounts of information and showing the relationships of it. Each piece of data is shown on a y axis and has a maximum point shown at the top. This parallel coordinate graph shows baseball statistics.

Triangular plot

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A triangular plot is a graph that shows three different types of variables. The three variables always equal out to some constant. This graph shows soil composition with the three variables being clay, sand, and silt.

Windrose

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A Windrose is a plotting graph that shows wind speed using circles to represent different frequency's that increase as toward the outward direction of the circle. This Windrose shows winds in 1998 using blue circles that indicate frequency per 10 degrees.

Climograph

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A Climograph is a graphic representation of the relationship between temperature and precipitation as plotted at monthly intervals throughout the year. The graph above shows the relation between the precipitation and temperature in Walgett, Australia.

Population profile or Population pyramid

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A Population pyramid shows the different age groups in a given population with the population plotted on the x axis and the age on the y axis. The graph above shows population stats for a region of the United Kingdom from a 2001 Census.