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Advantages and Disadvantages of a Pictograph

Advantages

• Pictographs are a nice visual and suggestive way to represent data. They represent data through
pictures of objects. So, it is easy to read.
• Pictographs can help answer questions and make inferences about data with just a quick glance.
• By reading a pictograph, we can quickly understand the frequencies of the different categories
(for example, cricket, hockey, etc.), and the comparisons of these frequencies.
• A scale or key is added to show what each symbol or picture represents. Each symbol or picture
can represent one unit or multiple units.
Disadvantages

• In some cases, finding a picture or a symbol to represent the data may not be easy. For example,
if the data represents marks obtained by students in a particular subject or course, a common
acceptable symbol or picture may be hard to find.

• It can be hard to draw symbols when the frequencies are not exact multiples of the scale or key.
• It may be more challenging to prepare a pictograph when the amount of data is large.
So let us see some other way to represent data visually.

Bar Graph

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on TV. According to
this graph, India has I also saw such
won a total of 41 a graph in the
medals in Olympics.
newspaper. What do
we call of this graph?
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