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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. There are 2 lines shown: a blue line for United States data and a red line for United Kingdom data. The axes are the same as for Figure 5. Both lines are roughly horizontal, each with 2 sharp peaks. The blue line has 2 large peaks in February and May. These coincide with the 2 large peaks in Figure 5. The red line has a smallish peak coinciding with the February large peak of the US figures. The red line also has a larger peak coinciding with the small peak in early May in Figure 5.

 3.1 Cheating with line charts