This assignment needs to be submitted in Week 8. The short reports are to be hand-written. Submit the work to your TUTORS
Analyze the following graph and write a short report of not more than 150 words using the framework covered in the lecture for Week 4 on Graph Interpretation
Interpretation
This graph represents the monthly amount of rainfall (measured in mm) for an entire year of four cities. It can be seen from the graph that Tokyo presents the most significant variation of its rainfall levels within the year out of the four cities, seeing as the level in January is approximately 50mm, which is lower than New York’s and similar to Berlin’s and London’s, yet by September it rises to over 200 mm of rainfall. It is interesting to note that for the months of January and December, Tokyo, Berlin and London converge at approximately 50 mm of rainfall.
Berlin and London follow a very similar pattern of rainfall throughout the year, both curves even overlapping for several months. It can be noticed as well that while New York experiences an essentially steady level of rainfall all through the year, for the months of June, September and October, it maintains a behaviour opposite to Tokyo’s: New York shows its lowest levels of rainfall during those months, while Tokyo displays its highest.
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Analyze the following graph and write a short report of not more than 150 words using the framework covered in the lecture for Week 4 on Graph Interpretation
Interpretation
The first aspect that can be noticed when comparing both graphs is that there was an increase of £26 million in total income in 2011 (£376 million) with respect to 2010 (£350 million), which represents an income growth of 7.43%. The country percentage distribution of the total income is also different between both years, which signifies that not all countries increased their income in the same proportion. The United States shows the highest surge, increasing from 28% in 2010 to 31% in 2011. Given that the net increase for the USA was £15 million, and the total increase in income for the year was £26 million, it can be established that 57.69% out of the year increment in total income can be attributed to the United States.
Japan also improved its income in 2011 and shows a 2% increase in its percentage of the total income. Interestingly, Britain increased its net income by £5million, yet its percentage of the total income remained the same, at 23%. Conversely, Mexico and France decreased their net income by £3 million and £4million, respectively.
In the case of Australia, its total income for 2010 and 2011 remained the same, at £65 million. However, for 2011 this represents a lower percentage of the total global income then it did in 2010, decreasing from 19% to 17%.
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Analyze the following graph and write a short report of not more than 150 words using the framework covered in the lecture for Week 4 on Graph Interpretation.
Interpretation
The graph compares the annual paper production (in million tons) of companies P, Q and R from 2006 to 2010. It can be established that the annual production of all three companies in 2010 compared to 2006 grew, as company P increased from 30 to 40 million tons, company Q increased from 25 to 55 million tons and company R increased from 35 to 45 million tons. However, when considering the paper production for all the years in the graph it can be observed that there was not a consistent growing tendency throughout the years for all companies.
Company Q is the only one out of the three companies that consistently augmented its production year to year, increasing its production in steps of 5 million tons of paper from 2006 to 2009, and showing a final increase of 15 million tons between 2009 and 2010, ending with a total of 55 million tons produced. It is interesting to note that company Q started with lowest level of production out of the three companies, ended with the highest, and in 2008 it produced the same amount of paper as company P.
All companies had at least one year as the leading company in paper production. Company P produced the highest amount of paper out of all three companies in 2007 (45 million tons) and 2009 (50 million tons), company Q had the highest level in 2010 (55 million tons) and company R was the leading company in 2006 (35 million tons) and 2008 (40 million tons).
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