The Graph

All right so let’s look at the graph and I’m going to ask you to remember it because well remember the the basic idea of it.

Because I’m going to get rid of it to go over the example of how we describe it because I don’t have that much room on the screen.

OK.

So total fertility rate that means the number of babies born and GDP per capita.

We know what that means.

OK.

Now here we have on this graph we have the total fertility rate over here.

That means the number of children per woman in what those cities states.

What.

Well there is Saudi Arabia.

There’s Israel.

So it’s going it’s going to be countries.

It’s gonna be countries.

So they each dot is a country.

We can know that because we see that these two dots are countries.

And maybe you can look up where your country is what is the GDP per capita of your country.

What is the fertility rate of your country.

Maybe interesting to look up to research.

Look up means research.

OK.

So and by the way I’m just getting this information from the internet.

If it’s incorrect for some reason I apologize.

But we’re using it for the example to describe the data because we need to know how to do this.

All right now we have the fertility rate here and on the.

That’s called the y axis.

And on the x axis y axis on the x axis we have the GDP per capita.

And this is in U.S. dollars and the year we can see is two thousand four.

So this information comes from two thousand four.

So we have here we could say very very poor countries low GDP per capita wealthier countries up to 40.

Looks like about forty one thousand dollars GDP per capita.

And then on the side of the poor countries you have generally higher fertility rate.

That means more women are having more babies.

OK.

Women are having more babies on average.

And then you can see a sharp drop or a sharp decline in the number of babies that women have as the GDP per capita increases.

Now if that’s complicated and you can understand what I’m saying don’t worry we’re going to go over it in text I’m going to read through the example that I’ve made to describe this and hopefully it will be very clear.

I’m using this as a way to show you the language we can use to describe visualizations to describe charts graphs data.

OK.

So I hope I hope you can sort of take a mental picture of this and notice the trend here.

Notice that these countries are the poorer countries the wealthier countries over here.

Notice that we have two countries here in the middle.

And notice these numbers of nine at the top here.

Forty five thousand at the top or at the farthest end over here.

OK.

So take a mental picture.

Ready.

One two three.

All right.

Let’s now go on and talk about how we can describe this.

No analysis yet.

We’re not going to talk about what it means yet but we’re going to talk about how to describe it clearly.