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Motivating visualization

To get an insight from a dataset, you can calculate summary statistics or run statistical models, but often it's easier to draw a plot.

In this exercise, you can see the price of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency from the start of 2016 to the start of 2020.

Look at the Bitcoin prices on January the first each year. Which year began with the highest Bitcoin price?

Data Source: Coindesk

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Understanding Data Visualization

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