Graphing give us an easy way to compair information. Making bar graphs is one way to display statistical data. Today we will make bar graphs by hand, and next period we will learn how to make graphs using Microsoft Excel.

• Top Web Sites
• Top Entertainment Sites
• Top General News Sites
• Top Education Sites
• Top Travel Sites
• Top Government Sites (US)
• Percent of Households with Internet Access, 2001
• Internet Users in the U.S.
• Top 15 Countries by Computers-in-Use at Year-End 2000 and 2001 - Do the Year-end 2000 (millions) column.
• Online Activities by Age, 2001 - ONLY DO TEENS!!
• Hours per Week Spent on Various Media Among Online Users, 2000
• How Many Online Worldwide?
• Share of Total Online Sales by Category - ONLY DO the 2001 column, NOT the Quarters.
• Internet and Wireless Internet Users Worldwide
• Top Search Services, February 2002

Make sure that you

• convey the proper information (6 marks)
• put numbers along the vertical - y axis (1 mark)
• put names along the horizontal - x axis (1 mark)
• title your graph(1 mark)
• label both axis (2 marks)
• make your graph easy to read and colourful (4 marks)
• for a total of 15 marks!!