Curso de Sociologia

Introdução à Economia
2022/2023

Docente: Daniel Pais

 Curso de Sociologia
Introdução à Economia
Capítulo 2
Instrumentos de Análise Económica

2.1 Análise Diagramática em economia: princípios básicos

The power of visual resources
Graphs enable to:
• Contextualize the problem analyzed
• Visually express theories
• Clearly describe ideas
• Observe past and future trends
• Understand how variables correlate
The power of visual resources
https://ourworldindata.org/blog
https://www.gapminder.org/resources/

• Bar graphs (one variable for various individuals)

• Time-series graphs (one variable for a time period, trends)
• Cross-section graphs (correlation between two variables)

• Cause-and-effect (correlation does not imply causation)

• Omitted variable and reserve causality
The power of visual resources