Exam 18: Data Visualization

Ashwin is creating visualizations for the audit committee. He knows that at least one audit committee member has color blindness. What can he do to make his visualizations CVD-friendly?

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Use CVD-friendly color combinations (such as blue and orange or red and blue); select different tints of the same color; add text, icons, arrows, annotations, different line widths, or different line styles to clarify the message.

Dalton collected customer review data for his customer support audit that he is performing. He's trying to find the lowest score that the customer support staff received, the highest score, the median score, and how all the other scores fall between those values. What type of chart should he create?

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May, a deli owner, wants to create two charts to help her make business decisions around staffing and inventory. She wants to create one chart that will help her show which day of the week has the most sales, and another chart showing which sandwich type is the most popular, overall. What type of visualizations would best fit her needs and what data points does she need to create these two charts?

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Scenario: which day of the week has the most sales
Chart type: line or bar chart
Variables needed: Dates and sales per each day of the week
Scenario: which sandwich type is the most popular
Chart type: bar chart or pie chart
Variables needed: count of number of sales per sandwich type

Jasmine has done data analysis around the current communication system at work. It turns out that the employees send over 100 emails every day to communicate with one another. She wants to prepare a data story to help management understand that the company needs to adopt an instant communication system like Microsoft Teams or Slack. What part of the story would present her suggestion to improve the current communication system?

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Question 4

Avia is working on the annual report for her company. She notices that there are many visualizations on one page, which makes it difficult for the reader to focus on the message of the visualization. To reduce the cognitive load of the reader, Avia should add more

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Question 5

Nissa is creating a daily report that will have visualizations presenting technical details of the data conversion project she's managing. Which party would most likely be the appropriate audience for this visualization?

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Question 6

Which of the following is a visual representation of numeric distributions based on user-defined ranges?

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Question 7

White space refers to

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Question 8

Emma performed analytics with accounting data. She wants to create a dashboard to present accounts payable metrics and include three charts. Which of the following is a chart Emma should create?

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Question 9

As an owner of a successful ice cream shop, Leila wants to see if there is a correlation between the temperatures outside and ice cream sales. Which type of chart would help her visualize this?

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Question 10

Griffin is tasked with visualizing hourly wages of tax directors in his accounting firm. Griffin's visualization will show the maximum, minimum, and median hourly wage. Which chart would help him visualize that information?

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Question 11

Theo is an auditor who is looking at human resources (HR) metrics that the business tracks. There are four charts that he is auditing. He realizes that one of them does not belong with the theme of HR metrics. Which of the following metrics would be irrelevant to HR?

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Question 12

Monique works for a popular makeup and beauty store and wants to visualize daily sales of their top five products for the past year to see if there are any seasonal patterns. The goal of her analysis is to discover how different variables in her data set relate to one another. What type of data visualization technique will she use?

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Question 13

What type of values is the following? total sale amount, hotel tax amount, sales tax percentage.

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Question 14

What percentage of men have a color vision deficiency (CVD)?

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Question 15

Kira wants to use an icon to represent "savings." Which of the following icon choices would be the best visual cue?

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Question 16

Why is setting the tone in data visualization important?

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Question 17

Roberto, a senior accounting student, is tasked with presenting a short informational pitch to all incoming first-year students about becoming a CPA. He wants to include some data points in his presentation about the current format of the CPA exam before it changes effective January 1, 2024. What five data points should he include?

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Question 18

Adelaide became a coffee shop manager. In her new role, she wants to create some metrics to help her run the coffee shop effectively. What analytics could she build on her interactive dashboards?

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Question 19

Ophelia, a payroll accountant, created a chart to show employee salaries by gross monthly salary intervals that she defined. Her chart starts at $800 and increases by $25 intervals. She then charts how many employees fall within those ranges in one pay period. Which type of chart did she create to visualize that?

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Ashwin is creating visualizations for the audit committee. He knows that at least one audit committee member has color blindness. What can he do to make his visualizations CVD-friendly?

Dalton collected customer review data for his customer support audit that he is performing. He's trying to find the lowest score that the customer support staff received, the highest score, the median score, and how all the other scores fall between those values. What type of chart should he create?

Avia is working on the annual report for her company. She notices that there are many visualizations on one page, which makes it difficult for the reader to focus on the message of the visualization. To reduce the cognitive load of the reader, Avia should add more

Nissa is creating a daily report that will have visualizations presenting technical details of the data conversion project she's managing. Which party would most likely be the appropriate audience for this visualization?

Which of the following is a visual representation of numeric distributions based on user-defined ranges?

White space refers to

Emma performed analytics with accounting data. She wants to create a dashboard to present accounts payable metrics and include three charts. Which of the following is a chart Emma should create?

As an owner of a successful ice cream shop, Leila wants to see if there is a correlation between the temperatures outside and ice cream sales. Which type of chart would help her visualize this?

Griffin is tasked with visualizing hourly wages of tax directors in his accounting firm. Griffin's visualization will show the maximum, minimum, and median hourly wage. Which chart would help him visualize that information?

Theo is an auditor who is looking at human resources (HR) metrics that the business tracks. There are four charts that he is auditing. He realizes that one of them does not belong with the theme of HR metrics. Which of the following metrics would be irrelevant to HR?

What type of values is the following? total sale amount, hotel tax amount, sales tax percentage.

What percentage of men have a color vision deficiency (CVD)?

Kira wants to use an icon to represent "savings." Which of the following icon choices would be the best visual cue?

Why is setting the tone in data visualization important?

Adelaide became a coffee shop manager. In her new role, she wants to create some metrics to help her run the coffee shop effectively. What analytics could she build on her interactive dashboards?

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