ABSTRACT
There’s an old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. In many situations, presenting data in a graphical display makes the information much more understandable. A well-designed graph of the data in a table can be many times more informative than the table alone. This chapter and the next two describe and show a variety of graphic displays that can be used to present environmental data. This chapter discusses traditional graphs. Other graphic displays, such as maps and cross sections, are discussed in the following two chapters.
