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Helpful Hints

Try visualizing how you best understand your data. (Do you picture a line through time? Do you picture comparing sizes of bars?) Use that to guide what figures to use.
Construct your tables and figures on the computer. If you don’t know how, ask your TA or visit the following website: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA011161281033.aspx and skip down to number 5: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Numbers
If you are working in a group, do not print out multiple copies of the same figure. Each student must make his/her own. Otherwise, we won’t know whether you did the work of making the graph yourself or you are trying to get credit for work done by somebody else, which would constitute plagiarism!
Don’t forget you need to have a written portion to your results, not just graphs and figures.
Don’t just use the tables from the lab manual or handouts that your TA may give you. There are much better ways to present your data.