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Where Are You Flying?
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14 to 18
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Where do people fly to from London?
We collected data on the number of planes that flew to each continent from London airports in 2017.
Here are four representations of this data:
Figure 1
Figure 2: Popularity of destinations (by continent) in 2017
Figure 3: Destinations of flights from London in 2017
Figure 4: Number of flights from London airports in 2017
What information can you deduce from each representation?
What is good about each representation (including its caption)?
What is bad about each representation?
Who might create each of these representations and for what purpose?
Could you create a better representation?
To see the original data used to create these representations, click on "Show".
Continent
Total flights
Proportion
Europe
374496
67.8%
Domestic
57866
10.5%
Asia
52336
9.5%
North America
52259
9.5%
Africa
11925
2.2%
South America
2059
0.4%
Oceania
1442
0.3%
Is there anything you might ask about this data?
To find out how this data was collected, take a look at the article
Challenging Data Tasks: The Making of "Where Are You Flying?"
This resource is part of the collection
Statistics - Maths of Real Life