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Tip of the Week #114

By Bernard Appiah | Jan. 31, 2013

Advances in information technology make it relatively easy to prepare three-dimensional graphs. But beware of using three-dimensional graphs for data that have only two dimensions. For example, if you are comparing mortality rates among men who lived in different cities, the 2 main variables are "mortality rate" and "city". Thus, only a two-dimensional graph is suitable.

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