Now that you know how to write the overviews for the trend graphs, we're now going to look at how to write the overviews for comparative graphs. So here's our first practice question. We have a bar graph here. We've already discussed this question prompt when we wrote the introduction for this question. So I won't be going over this question prompt again. But if you'd like, you can pause the video now and read the question prompt.

So let's move on to writing the overview. So you may recall that the first thing that we do when writing the overview is that we have to look at the highest and the lowest data points. Now, we don't have a trend graph here. In a trend graph, we look at the highest and the lowest data points at the start of the graph. And we also look at the highest and the lowest data points at the end of the graph. But we don't have a period of time here since we don't have a trend.

Graph. Instead, we just have an infographic, which is comparing two different data sets. In this example, the two different data sets are for these two countries, France and the UK. So what you need to do in this case is you just need to look at the highest and the lowest data points for France. And then you have to look at the highest and the lowest data points for the UK. So let's go ahead and do that.

So as you can see, here, we have the highest data point for France. And here we have the lowest data point for France. Now it's time to look at the highest and the lowest data points for the UK. So here we have the highest data point for the UK. And here we have the lowest. So these are all the different features that we're going to be discussing in our overview.

Now, when you're writing your overview, you're free to write about this data in any way that you want. So For example, if you want to first talk about the highest data points, and then talk about the lowest data points, you can do that. On the other hand, if you first want to talk about the highest and the lowest data points from France, and then talk about the highest and lowest data points from the UK, then you can do that as well. So it doesn't matter how you describe this data. The important thing is that you describe it in an accurate way. So for my example, I'm going to start off by first talking about the highest data points, and then I'm going to talk about the lowest data points next.

So let's see what that looks like. Here we have the highest data points for both France and the UK. And we see that these highest data points belong to cars. So here's our first sentence. On the whole cars dominated as the leading consumer product in both the UK and France in the game, period. So we're saying in the sentence that cars dominated the sales in both countries in France and the UK in the given period, which in this case is the year 2010.

For our next sentence, we're going to look at the lowest data points. In this case, the lowest data points are for perfume, and cameras. So here's the second sentence. Additionally, perfume and cameras occupied the bottom most positions in the UK, and France respectively. So what this means is that the UK spent the least amount of money on perfume, whereas France spent the least amount of money on cameras. So that completes our overview.

That's all we have to write. Our overview only needs to be two or three sentences long. So since we've discussed all of these different data points, our overview is now complete. Now let's move on to our next example. This time we have a tables question. So here's the question prompt for this question.

I've already discussed this question prompt when we wrote the introduction, so I won't be going over it. Instead, I'll move on straight to the overview. So if you need to read the prompt, you can pause the video now. In the overview paragraph, we have to give some basic information about the key data points in our infographic. So usually, these key data points are the starting and the ending data points, and the highest and the lowest data points. Now you'll notice that in this table over here, we don't have a starting and an ending data point because we don't have a period of time in this example.

However, we do have highest and lowest data points. Therefore, we have to describe the highest and the lowest data points in our overview in this example. Now I want to make a quick note about the highest and the lowest data points, you're completely free to choose the highest and the lowest data points however you'd like. In this case, you have two options. Option number one is you can look at the highest and the lowest data points by countries. So you can see what's the highest data point for Ireland, and what's the lowest data point for Ireland.

Similarly, you can look at the highest and the lowest data points for Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey. Your second option is to look at the highest and the lowest data points by category. For example, you can look at the highest data point and the lowest data point for food, drinks and tobacco. Then you can look at the highest data point and the lowest data point for clothing and footwear. And then you can look at the highest and the lowest data points for leisure and education. In this particular example, it's better to talk about the highest and the lowest data points by category.

Because this way, you will have to describe a lesser number of data points. And this is important because you only have three to five minutes to write the overview paragraph. So let's go ahead and take a look at the highest and the lowest data points for our first category. So here, you can see that the highest data point belongs to Turkey, and the lowest data point belongs to Sweden. Let's move on to clothing and footwear. In this category, Italy has the highest data point and Sweden has the lowest.

Finally, in the leisure and education category, Turkey has the highest data point and Spain has The lowest. So now we have all the data points that we're going to talk about in our overview paragraph. So let's go ahead and write our overview paragraph. Now, we're going to start off with our first sentence, in which we're going to talk about food, trains and tobacco. So our first sentence reads, In brief, Turkey had the highest spending on food, drinks and tobacco, whereas Sweden spent the least on these items. So here, we're simply describing the highest and the lowest data points.

Notice that we are not Describing any numeric details at this point. In the overview paragraph, you only have to give basic information. We only talk about the numbers in the third and the fourth paragraph. Now let's move on to our second sentence. In the second sentence, we're going to talk about our second category. Which is clothing and footwear.

In the clothing and footwear category, Italy took the lead while Sweden occupied the last spot. Now let's look at our final sentence. In the final sentence, we're going to talk about the final category. Finally, the Turkish population made the most significant investment in education and leisure, whereas the Spanish invested the least. Okay, it's as simple as that. You simply have to describe the highest and the lowest data points.

Let's move on to our next example. This time, we have a pie charts question. Similar to the previous examples. You've already seen this question before when we wrote our introduction, so I'll just move straight to the overview. So the First thing that you need to do is you need to look at the highest and the lowest data points for the first pie chart. And then you need to look at the highest and the lowest data points for the second pie chart.

So in this case, in the first pie chart here are our highest and the lowest data points. The highest data point belongs to heating, and the lowest data point belongs to cooling. For our second pie chart, this is our lowest data point. And this is our highest data point. Now when you're writing your overview, you're free to arrange this information in any way that you want. For example, first, you could talk about the first pie chart.

And then in the next sentence, you could talk about the second pie chart. On the other hand, if you want to talk about the highest data points first, and then talk about the lowest data points in the next sentence, then you can do that as well. So in my example, I'm first going to describe The highest data points in both the pie charts. And then I'm going to describe the lowest data points in both the pie charts. So here's our first sentence. In general, Australian residents utilize the most energy in heating, while emitting the most substantial amount of greenhouse gases via water heating.

Now, let's talk about the lowest data points in our next sentence. So here's our next sentence. On the other hand, cooling expense, the least amount of energy and also produces the least greenhouse emissions. So we've written two sentences in this overview, and we've talked about all the important data points that we've circled in the red color. So our overview is now complete. Now let's move on to our final example.

Here we have a mixed charts question. We've already written the introduction for this question. So let's move on to the overview. The first thing that you need to do is you need to find the highest and the lowest data points in the two infographics. The easiest way to do this in this example is to find the highest and the lowest data points for the pie chart, and then find the highest and the lowest data points for the table. So first, let's look at the pie chart.

So in our pie chart, here, we have the highest data point, it belongs to overgrazing, and here we have the lowest data point. Now let's move on to the table. Now, you may be wondering which highest and lowest data points should you talk about? Should you talk about the highest and lowest data points by category? For example, deforestation over cultivation, and overgrazing? Or should you look at the highest and the lowest data points by the region Which are North America, Europe and Oceania?

Or should you look at the highest and the lowest data point by the total land degraded? So we have three different options here to talk about the highest and the lowest data point. We can describe the highest and the lowest data points by these categories here. We can describe it by the regions here, or we can describe them by the total amount listed here. Which one should we choose? Let me give you a little hint.

You only have three to five minutes to write the overview. And you only have to write two or three sentences for the overview. This means that you should choose the option with the least amount of data points. In this example, this choice here contains the least amount of data points because in this case, we only have two data points. Here is our lowest data point, and here is our highest data point. So in our overview, we're going to be talking about these four data points.

The easiest way to describe these data points is to first describe the data points from the pie chart, and then describe the data points from the table in the next sentence. So here's our first sentence. It reads, In brief, over grazing of land is the leading cause of global land deterioration, while on specified reasons, account for the lowest amount of land decay. So we're saying that overgrazing is the leading cause of land deterioration, and other unspecified causes account for the least amount of land decay. Now, it's time to describe these data points from our table. So here's our next sentence.

Furthermore, Europe has experienced the most significant amount of total land degradation, whereas North America has suffered the least. So here's our highest data point. And we're saying that Europe has experienced the highest amount of land degradation and North America has experienced the least amount. So we've written two sentences in our overview, and we've talked about the highest and the lowest data points in the pie chart, as well as the table. So our overview is now complete. Now, before I end this video, I want to make one final reminder.

Never mentioned these key numeric details in the overview. So numbers such as this 7% 35% 5% or 23%. These numbers should never be mentioned in the overview. In the overview, you're just giving some basic information. We only mentioned these key numeric details in paragraph nine Number three, and number four. So that's all for this video.

Good job, everyone for coming this far into the course. In the next video, I'm going to show you how to write the overviews for process diagrams. So I'll see you there