Thursday, April 15, 2010

Climate graphs

I think I've lost track of which class has done these, and which hasn't... so I'm just going to post the information online:

The following diagram (click on it to make it bigger) is a table of information about weather for Sydney in 2009 (at least I think it's 2009)...





What you need to do with it:

  1. Distill the information down to the MAIN points (i.e. min/max temp and rainfall
  2. Draw a SINGLE graph of that information

Whilst you can do SOME of it in Excel, I hope that you realise that you won't be able to do all of it via Excel, as climate graphs require TWO Y-axes...

Ways around it:

  1. Draw the entire graph by hand
  2. Draw two SEPARATE graphs in Excel and then photoshop the two graphs together
  3. Draw two separate graphs and print them together and hope and pray that they align with each other.

You will need to put a picture of this graph on your blog and it counts for some marks towards your next blog submission.

The main points of doing this are:

  1. More graphing exercise so that you are comfortable with graphs
  2. You are able to work out what information is not required when you collect all your data
  3. You can post pictures on your blog.

I hope that is enough information!



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7 comments:

  1. pepero~17 April, 2010 22:49

    what do u mean by 3. printing 2 graphs together then hoping that they align?

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  2. sarahteaa19 April, 2010 11:20

    oh we can just draw it? aweesomee because I've done both graphs but everytime I try to merge them together everything gets muddled up and I even tried photoshopping but that didn't work either, cool bananas thanks ms zhang!

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  3. sarahteaa19 April, 2010 11:24

    ohhh and I did average rainfall and temperature instead of min/max

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  4. akaTODAY.19 April, 2010 19:21

    when posting pictures, is there a way to insert the picture where the flashing typing thing is located instead of always at the top of the page/ post? it could just be me, but i find it realy annoying when i've typed a chunk of text, insert a picture & have to drag it down from the top of the post to where i want it.

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  5. lilian.thigh03 May, 2010 13:51

    Do you want min temp or max or halfway in between the two values?

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  6. Ms. Zhang03 May, 2010 15:40

    Yeah... unfortunately that's a bug in the program that you'll just have to deal with...

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  7. LTruong03 May, 2010 19:13

    So is the graph based on the table? So the graph includes all the data about the max/min temperature and rainfall right? Is that the two graphs that we're meant to be combining? Thanks

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