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Visualisation: Visual representations of data and information

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This line graph shows how the number of Google searches for the word ‘flowers’ changes with month of the year. The horizontal axis has no label and is marked in units of date, from Jan 07 to Dec 07, at intervals of 1 month. The vertical axis is not labelled and has no units or scale. The line is roughly horizontal with 2 large and 1 small sharp peaks. The large peaks occur in mid February and early May and the small peak in mid March.

 3.1 Cheating with line charts