[nabs-l] Coping with Graphs and Other Visual Representations ofData

[Greg Aikens]

Hi Tina,
I'm sorry if I misunderstood your original question.  I was thinking that being able to draw the graphs would give you access to a lot of the visual information and what the data represents.  With a well made tactile diagram made by a professional transcriber and some training on how to read them you would be able to feel a bar graph and know that one column represents 50 and another represents 35.  With the methods I suggested you definitely still need someone to tell you exactly what values the diagrams represent.  

My only suggestion for this is to get your reader to read this information to you and then you could put it in your notes.  For bar graphs you could write something like: 
Bar 1: Dogs 35
Bar 2: cats 40 
Bar 3: birds 15

The same would work for pie charts and scattergrams.  For scattergrams I still recommend having someone draw you the diagram to accompany this list of info because it is a very visual way to analyze data.  It can be difficult to get an idea of the trend with just a list of points.  

Hope this was more helpful. 

Greg
On Nov 19, 2010, at 10:45 PM, Tina Hansen wrote:

> These are all good for drawing graphs. Now, how about the question of understanding data that graphs and other visual material is meant to represent? Does anyone have ideas for how to convey the data that is represented in either a table, bar chart, pie chart, scattergram, or whatever? What tools, tips, tricks or techniques have you used to gain access to this kind of information? Thanks. 
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