- I think a graph is a way for us
to visualize information from numbers
so that we can easily detect patterns in those numbers.
One type of graph that people like to do
are like, scatterplots where you can plot...
You can see how two variables are associated.
For example, in this case,
you can plot the height of your plant as the Y,
and then you can plot the presence
or absence of certain microbes as the X.
So what you would expect is to see two clouds,
the cloud of the tall plant and the cloud of the short plant,
and then separated by
whether they have a specific microbe present or not.
- What's great about graphing, is it really,
it gives you an opportunity to look at, sort of a,
like the full picture of all the data at one time.
So if you're looking at, especially with a lot of data,
it's really hard to see patterns
if you're just looking at numbers,
and it's also hard to take in the whole thing at once.
But really when you graph it out,
then you can really see like, everything at once
and sort of start to notice patterns
that you wouldn't notice if you were just looking at it
a couple numbers at a time.