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Data doesn't do us much good if we can't interpret it. Ever snuck into a CPA's office while he slips out for a coffee break and tried to decipher one of the spreadsheets on his PC? No? Uh... yeah, right, us neither.

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Data interpretation, a la Shmoop. You and your best friend do everything together.

00:12

Let's face it, you two are pretty much attached at the hip.

00:15

It's becoming complicated though, because you're starting to get a little better at

00:18

things than your BFF. You won the cookie eating contest.

00:23

You beat them in the potato sack race. You were able to swim all the way across the

00:28

lake. You can feel things coming to a head.

00:33

So how can you two still be friends if you are so much better at everything than they

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are? The answer? Data Interpretation!

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In the world of Pre-Algebra -- and in many other mathematical worlds as well...

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...data interpretation is the expression and analysis of data that you've collected.

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A couple common tools used to interpret information and express data are Bar Graphs and Pie Charts.

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No, no, no -- this kind of bar and this kind of pie.

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Let's revisit the infamous cookie eating contest of last December...

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...and make a bar graph of the results over the course of time.

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As you'll recall, the goal was to eat 25 Chips Ahoy cookies as quickly as possible.

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So yeah -- you won. But let's interpret this data with a bar graph

01:17

for you, and one for your friend... ...to see how we might be able to give your

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friend some cookie-eating cred. Let's break the bars into chunks of time.

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The first bar will be cookies consumed from start to minute two.

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The second bar will be cookies consumed from minute two to minute four...

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... and so on and so forth. Let's look at the two graphs side by side.

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Is there any way we can make your friend the hero in this case?

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As it turns out, your friend is actually a sprinter in the cookie consuming department.

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He ate 8 cookies in the first two minutes while you only ate 5.

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Of course you did come back for the win. But we definitely think his speedy consumption

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is deserving of a shout-out. So... if you feel like you are always winning

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- or always losing, for that matter... ...remember - there are different ways to

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interpret the data from any particular event. And sometimes the interpretation may turn

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you from a loser... into a wiener.

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