Colours of all cars registered in New Zealand in 2006
The digits beyond the 3rd significant digit in tabulated values rarely convey any useful information and can be called data noise.
Use this example to make the point that reducing the decimal digits makes the information (signal) in the data stand out.
Click the '-' buttons to round the counts to thousands and round the proportions to 3 decimal digits.
Finally, click the Percentage checkbox to remove some leading zeros and make it easier to run the eye down the column to compare values.
The data were published by Land Transport New Zealand.