Download Sorting Information Calories from Food Activity 1

Activity 1
Sorting Information
Calories from Food
Load ViewPoint and open the Countries file.
Use the Search tool to select countries outside the continents of Europe and
North America.
Use the Sort tool to sort the Daily Calorie Intake per person (CalsPerDay) into
a descending order.
Go to List View and look to the bottom of the CalsPerDay column. Some
countries have ‘0’ here.
Why do you think this is so?
Remove those countries for which the Cals/day information is ‘0’.
Which continents
contain the bottom
thirty countries in
the list?
Does the position of any countries in the sorted list surprise you?
Can you suggest any explanations?
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Activity 2
Searching the Information
Doctors
Load ViewPoint and open the Countries file.
Search for all the countries where each
doctor is shared by more than 1000 people.
Now sort the information on the People per Doctor (PopPerDoc) field,
choosing the ‘Decreasing’ option.
Which continent has the worst
ratio of doctors and patients?
You might like to plot a graph to help you with this question.
Carry out a further search on these chosen sheets to exclude this continent.
Which of the remaining
countries have the
poorest ratio of doctors
and patients?
Do the statistics for infant mortality and life expectancy show any links with
the numbers of doctors available?
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Activity 3
Drawing Graphs
Countries and Population
Load ViewPoint and open the Countries file.
Go to the Graph View and draw a pie chart based on the ‘Continents’
fields.
On the Graph menu choose pie segment values. This will show you the
number of countries in each continent.
Print or save this graph.
Draw a new pie chart using the ‘Continents’ and the
‘Population’ fields.
Your new graph will display the total population of each
continent (in millions).
Which continent has the greatest population?
And which has the smallest?
Where does Europe come in order of population size?
You might want to change the graph type to a bar chart
to help with this question.
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Activity 4
More Graphs
Imports and Exports
Load ViewPoint and open
the Economies file.
Go to the List View and
use the search tool to
remove all countries
whose imports are shown
to be worth more than
80,000 million dollars.
How many
countries remain?
Plot a graph using ‘Country’ as the first question (x axis), and ‘Imports’ as the
second question (y axis).
Draw a bar graph. This will show the value of imports for each of the countries.
Create a second graph.
Use ‘Country’ as the first question again, and add
‘Exports’ to the second question.
Plot the graph, and you will see imports and exports
for each of the developing countries.
Which of these countries’ exports are worth more
than their imports?
Now repeat this activity, comparing the AgPropGDP and IndPropGDP fields.
What have you discovered?
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Activity 5
A Selection of Questions
Using the Countries file
Is Christianity practised in more
African countries than in Asia?
Does adult literacy improve when there
are more children at school?
Try drawing a scatter graph to explore this.
Compare the countries where English, French or Spanish are major languages.
Do you detect any patterns in the data for these groups of countries?
Which country compares most closely
with the United Kingdom in terms of the
following statistics:
population, area, GDP per person?
Using the Economies file
Which country has the highest Agricultural
output as a proportion of GDP?
And which country has the lowest known
output?
Which countries have high
commissions in London
rather than embassies?
Can you suggest why this is?
Choose the countries for which tourism statistics are available.
Use the Statistics tool to calculate the average number of tourists.
Does the United Kingdom have more
or less tourists than this each year?
Which countries have no known oil refineries?
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