Gallery of Student Graphs

Among the graphs presented here for your edification and amusement are some of the very best and very worst graphing efforts that students taking General Chemistry at the University of Oregon in previous years have submitted in their lab reports. The quality of the graphs ranges from outstandingly good to appallingly bad. Graphs were scanned directly from the student paper; any scanning artifacts are strictly the fault of the instructor. If you click on the thumbnail image of a graph below, you will see the full-size image along with some commentary. Use this gallery to see how other people have solved the problem of graphing data, and to see what does and does not make for a good graph.

This collection is constantly evolving. If you think your graph is good enough to be included in the gallery, bring it to the attention of your instructor. If your graph is bad enough to be included in the gallery -- don't worry, we'll make sure it gets included with no prompting from your end!

Thumbnail Images
(click on the image)		 Quality Topic of Lab
Nifty! 44kB Superb Spectrophotometric Determination of an Acid-Base Equilibrium Constant
Nifty! 45kB Excellent Spectrophotometric Determination of an Acid-Base Equilibrium Constant
Nifty! 111kB Excellent Spectrophotometric Determination of an Acid-Base Equilibrium Constant
Nifty! 64kB Very Good Spectrophotometric Determination of a Food Dye
Nifty! 43kB Very Good Spectrophotometric Determination of a Food Dye
Nifty! 106kB Very Good Spectrophotometric Determination of a Food Dye
Yuck! 35kB Poor Spectrophotometric Determination of a Food Dye
Yuck! 80kB Poor Spectrophotometric Determination of a Food Dye
Yuck! 26kB Awful Thermodynamics of the Vaporization of Water
Yuck! 112kB Awful Spectrophotometric Determination of an Acid-Base Equilibrium Constant
Yuck! 82kB Unspeakable Who knows?