The topic is UNEMPLOYMENT.

Project I: Creating Visuals from Data Create a 4- to 5-slide PowerPoint including:

One slide on your topic and question (approximately 1 minute): o Which topic/question did you choose? o Why does it interest you?

One to two slides of visuals (approximately 2-3 minutes). o These should be clear, neat, organized, and labeled. o Explain why you chose to create these and what you can conclude from the

visuals. o Visuals must include a visual where central tendency and outliers can be seen (a

histogram or a box and whisker plot if you have quantitative data, a two way table if you have qualitative data). If you have outliers, make sure you create one visual with the outlier(s) and 1 without the outlier(s). And clarify how you defined these to be outliers.

One slide for a conclusion (approximately 1 minute). o Discuss what you learned from this project.

Include detailed speaker notes for each slide. Consider the following questions when creating your speaker notes:

How did the outliers impact the mean and median? How did they impact the histogram?

How would you describe the shape of their histogram? Is it skewed?

Which do you think is a better measure of central tendency, median or mean? Why?

How would you describe how spread out their data is? What did you calculate or which

visual supports their conclusion on how spread out the data is?

Hints for Making an Effective Graph/Map:

Decide why you are making graph/map from this data.

Decide the type of graph/map you are making.

Decide on a title and consider the "W's" (who, what, why, where and when).

Put in a legend (if applicable)

Put in a descriptive x-axis label (if applicable).

Put in a descriptive y-axis label (if applicable).

Put in scale (if applicable).