A dot plot or dot chart consists of data points plotted on a graph. The Federal Reserve uses dot plots to show its predicted interest rate outlook.

“The dots are not a great forecaster of future rate moves,” Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has warned, but every quarter the financial universe ponders the FOMC’s dot plot as though ...

You can augment a chart for individual measurements with one of several graphical displays, such as a histogram or a box-and-whisker plot. These displays summarize the measurements plotted on the ...