Thursday, August 18, 2011

History of the World Cup
(Author of Visualization: Ross Perez, published on Tableau)








1. What do the circles on the map represent?

2. What do the colors on the map represent?

3. What do the flags on the histogram represent?

4. Identify the type of graph represented by the flags.

5. Find Brazil, United States, Mexico, Wales, and 2 of your choice. Convert the winning percentage and tie percentage to decimals and fractions in reduced form.

6. Place the countries on a number line labeling with the decimal and fraction.

7. Write an equation for each of the countries in #5 that shows how to find the winning percentage and the tie percentage. Clearly show your process.

8. Select the different continents using the select continent pull down menu. Find the mean, median, mode, and range of the number of games played for all the different countries included within each continent.

9. From your data, determine which measure of central tendency is best to use in creating a graph and justify your choice?

10. Create a graph to represent your data from #9.

11. What does the red line on the histogram represent?

12. What were the big ideas (objectives, essential learnings, performance expectations, etc.) in this activity?

13. How did you feel about this activity?

NOTE: If you have problems viewing the visualization in Blogger, click

http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/gallery/history-world-cup

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