Data analysis is important in any business. Its is utilized for a multitude of things, but most importantly for decision making. Businesses can leverage data analysis to make better decisions depending on the company. It gives insight to many things, such as customer trends, profitability over time and again, drives more effective/efficient decision making.
I wanted to show the cost, revenue and profit. I chose the first bar graph to show the overall operations and the areas of each within each month. I chose this graph that is a combination to show the profit over time and its increase. It was clear that in the beginning months the profits were down, but picked up as the year went on.
I chose both graphs specifically for the ease of reading. I feel like using simple bar graphs and line graphs makes the data easy to manage as well as easy to present, even if the present is not the most knowledgeable. The visualizations are meant to make the data easy to present and easy to understand. The visualizations changed my analysis by showing me the data in action as opposed to just reading a spreadsheet. I fully believe the target audience does change how you present data in a visualization. The audience can determine what needs to be presented with your data, or it makes you review your data to see what is important to present and what is not.
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