Pictograph

Guys there are different types of Graphs, bar graph, line graph, pie graph and the one which i am going to discuss today is Pictograph. This is such an interesting type of a graph which looks colorful and it has pictures in it. It is fun to use and its a different graph right, let me discuss this more. I will give you the definition of Pictograph and also explain this with a simple example.

Definition of a Pictograph:- It is a basic type of representing a data by using pictures. Pictograph is a method of representing a statistical data in the form of pictures. This helps students to understand the data very easily as it uses pictures or symbols to represent an assigned data.

Here below i have a simple example for you.


There are 650 students in a school. There are 4 types of games that the school is affording. They are Baseball, basket ball, rugby and soccer.

• There are 140 students who are playing baseball.
• There are 120 students who are playing basket ball.
• There are 220 students who are playing rugby.
• There are 170 students playing soccer.

The pictogram for the given data in shown below:

In this pictograph, we can see the different types of games are represented with different pictures. The representation like this are said to be pictographs.

This example above has many pictures in it and it is easy too. Let me know your view and it will help me post better.