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Step Cards: Plotting data with Tabletop

Tabletop allows you to display data in a variety of ways. This exercise will introduce two types of plots: stack and Venn. You'll use the data you collected in your Pocket Change database.

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Stack plots

  1. Open the Pocket Change database.
  2. Click the Tabletop icon in the corner. Your data appears as random dots in the window.
  3. To make a stack plot, click the stack plot button.
  4. Now the data appears all stacked up together.
  5. To find out how many of each kind of coin you have, click and hold the X-axis button and select name.
  6. To display how many of each coin you have, click the button next to label and choose How many?
  7. Make at least two types of stack plots with the data and print them.

Venn plots

 

  1. With your Pocket Change database open, click the Tabletop icon.
  2. Click the Venn loop button.
  3. Click the add loop button to create the first loop.
  4. Point and click in the left box of the constraint box, slide down to edged.
  5. Point to the middle constraint box, choosing =
  6. Point and drag the right box and choose True.
  7. Press return on the keyboard and, instantly the records for the edged coins move into the loop.
  8. Click the add loop button and choose another field for constraints.
  9. When you press the return button, the data moves again.
  10. What data do both loops have in common?

Make at least two Venn loop diagrams and print them.

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