What Relationships to Look For
So far you looked at basic relationships with patterns in time and proportions. You learned about temporal trends, and compared proportions and percentages to see what’s the least and greatest and everything in between. The next step is to look for relationships between different variables. As something goes up, does another thing go down, and is it a causal or correlative relationship? The former is usually quite hard to prove quantitatively, which makes it even less likely you can prove it with a graphic. You can, however, easily show correlation, which can lead to a deeper more exploratory analysis.
You can also take a step back to look at the big picture, or the distribution of your data. Is it actually spaced out or is it clustered in between? Such comparisons can lead to stories about citizens of a country or how you compare to those around you. You can see how different countries compare to one another or general developmental can progress...