You may have to analyse data on traffic flows…
Geographers spend time analysing both information we have collected ourselves (primary data) and data supplied by someone else (secondary data). This Geographical Skills focuses on data analysis, and provides a set of quantitative techniques that can be used to understand, analyse and report data. Table 1 outlines some of these skills.
Describing your data is a key way to begin to understand what the figures tell you. There are a number of questions you can start with:
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