Charts Without Numbers

[rafeldal]

For my science fair project this year i conducted an experiment were i made comparisons between the different types of landslide behaviors. the problem that I am facing now thought is i have comparison data and not numbers. So is there a way were i can make a chart without numbers and just comparison data?

[tzforbes]

rafeldal,
It's hard to say exactly since I'm not sure what variables you were looking at for your landslide experiment, but

Here's a couple of links to information on charts and graphs from the Science buddy website:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... data.shtml

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... ysis.shtml

Does it have to be a graph? Can it be a table? Scientists often use tables to summarize results so you could have something like:

Table 1. Affect of different soil types on landslides

Soil Affect
Sandy soil faster movement of soil
Clay soil slower movement of soil

Hope this helps

Tori

[deleted-71295]

rafeldal,

You didn't say exactly what kind of data you have, but if you are comparing something like size or severity of landslides , you might try ordering them
according to the characteristic under study like from smallest to largest or least damaging to most damaging.

Mike Feit

[deleted-71709]

I can expand a bit on the concept that Mike pointed out in the last reply.

Sometimes in science, "data", can come from opinions and not necessarily measurements.

As Mike was pointing out, you might look a the severity of a landslide and invent your own scale of severity - like grade them from 1 to 5. Then you could graph the numbers you assigned.

This is done often, especially in surveys. Did you ever take a survey where they ask you to rate something? Statisticians, those are specialized mathematicians, take those rating numbers you provide, and analyze them scientifically with statistics to come up with trends and answers. It's quite alright to analyze data that way.

Just come up with some good definitions that go along with each of your scale values, and present that data.

Hope the helps.

Good luck on your project.

Ed Neu
Buffalo, MN