Possible advantages of using ICT to produce graphical representations of data

• Automatically produces a key, a title and labels for the

axes

• Easily produces graphs that are visually appealing

• Allows you to try and to investigate different types of

graph

• Graphs can be changed automatically as data changes

• Produces graphs very quickly

• Allows scales to be changed easily

Possible disadvantages of using ICT to produce graphical representations of data

• It is too easy to use the wrong kind of graph

• The most visually appealing graph is not necessarily

valid

• Automatic rescaling can lead the unwary into false

conclusions