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Candy Sales by Week: Easter Wins the Candy Wars

Candy Sales by Week
graph by Mark Fahey/CNBC, slow reveal by Jenna Laib

(Slide deck includes notes and questions to elicit discourse)

Type of Graph: bar graph

Visualization Source: Fahey, Mark. “Easter Wins the Candy Battle”, CNBC, March 24, 2016)

Data Source: Nielsen, includes grocery stores, drug stores, mass merchandisers, convenience stores, select dollar stores, select warehouse clubs, and military commisaries

Potential Math Content: bar graphs, scale, horizontal bar graphs, interpreting the peak values, determining the values of different bars (e.g. what’s 1/4 of the way between $400 and $600 million)

Potential Content Connections: consumerism, holidays

 


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