I made two graphs to display the results of my study. The first is a line graph representation of the relationship between between the number of American herring gulls observed and the tide level (in feet), where each point represents an observation period where a count occurred for a total of 40 points. The second graph is a column graph representation of the same data as the first graph, but I grouped each data point into categories of similar tide level and averaged the number of birds observed in each category.
I didn’t have any major issues in organizing, aggregating, or summarizing my data as my results were fairly straightforward and were easily synthesized into a graph. My outcome was as I expected, with a greater number of gulls being present at lower tide levels and vice versa. In addition, my data revealed that their is a gradual decrease in the number of gulls as the tide level increased, rather than a sharp decrease between low tide (2-12 ft) and high tide (12-14 ft). This shows that seagull activity may be more related to beach surface area than daily routines at high and low tide.
I like the clarity of these.
as you know, having some substantial text in the Figure part can be considered ‘free space’ to explain to your readers more about your project
for example, you could discuss how long observation period is
** a note about the bar graph, not that the values shouldn’t overlap
so for example, if the tide height was 4 feet, would the values be put in the second category of the first?
solve this by going 2-3.9, 4-5.9 etc
keep going!