Simple Table to Graph

For this assignment, I gathered data from the school website about crime statistics. The statistics were broken down into different categories, such as on-campus, off-campus, residence hall, public. I decided to take date from the on-campus category, and only crimes that were committed. I displayed the data in a table from the years 2006-2009. After I looked at the finished product of the table, I decided that I wouldn’t include certain information in my chart. I didn’t include information that was only of disciplinary actions on campus if there was a category of the same thing that included arrest. I also didn’t include hate crime statistics because there was unclear information that I didn’t think would translate into a chart nicely. I did all of this on Numbers, and then opened up Keynote for constructing a chart. I inserted the chart and then customized it with my information. For the first iteration, I had the bars of the chart as the years, and the x-axis as the crime. I also numbered the actual bars themselves. The color scheme consisted of different blues. I realized that by organizing the information this way, the crimes had to be abbreviated to fit and overall it looked crowded. After this AHA moment, I switched it so that the year was now the x-axis and the bars consisted of the crimes. I like how this ended up looking much better, because then the key could have the full crimes written out without looking sloppy. I also decided that numbering the bars was redundant, so I took those out as well. For a final iteration, I changed the colors slightly and made the key smaller.