For example, some graph designers label the bars in bar graphs with data labels rather than including a scale. When I see a graph without a scale I take out my ruler and measure the heights of the ...

A dot plot is judged by its position along an axis; in this case, the horizontal or x axis. A bar chart is judged by the length of the bar. I don’t like using lengths with logarithmic scales.

For example, if you are comparing the populations from three different years in a bar graph, the horizontal axis would merely have labels for each year. Corresponding bars would ascend from each ...

How to Make Your Graph to the Same Scale on a Vertical & Horizontal Axis in Excel. When you create a graph in Excel, the software automatically sizes the X and Y axis lines, so the data you want ...

Choosing 3 or 4 division per second would be ok, but creates subdivisions at more inconvenient numbers (for example, 0.3333 s or 0.25 s). Choose the y axis scale. The maximum velocity is 20 m/s. If ...

This also is another example of a chart that didn't ... The 2012 bar is actually taller than the y-axis ... The second and more serious issue is the treatment of the x-axis scale along ...

Climate graphs are an example of this. The x-axis shows the months of the year and there are two y-axes to show average temperature and total rainfall. The temperature is shown as a line and the ...