Exam 16: Creating Visuals and Data Displays

Five companies contributed different amounts to a local charity.Which of the following visuals could best illustrate the percentage of each company's contribution of the total amount?

Vesper has 250 clients in five local counties.She wishes to prepare a visual that shows the percentage of clients in each county.She could choose a pie chart to illustrate this data in a visual.

What are the characteristics of a good story?

When is it useful to use visuals in a written document?

A visual allows important information to be emphasized,even if the visual does not appear at the beginning or at the end of a document.

Which of the following statements about the use of color in visuals in professional reports is appropriate?

A truncated graph,where part of the scale is missing,is most acceptable when the audience does not know the basic data set well because it focuses in on the area of real interest.

Which of the following might be an interpretation of the color yellow in a visual in Western culture?

_____ are numbers or words arrayed in rows and columns.

When you want the audience to be able to identify exact values,use a:

When you want the audience to compare a segment to another segment of the whole,use a:

Pie charts:

_____ are used to emphasize location or to compare items in different locations.

Which of the following visuals can be used to show schedules for projects?

_____ uses images to create the bars.

Describe the components of a visual.

To be effective,a table should:

A complex visual requires relatively little discussion since all the information is contained in the graphics.

Pie charts are most appropriate when one section is being compared to another section of the whole.

List three tips for properly designing a table as a visual in a document.