Truncated Y-Axis One of the easiest ways to misrepresent your data is by messing with the y-axis of a bar graph, line graph, or scatter plot.

How to Put Breaks in Microsoft Graphs. A single large value in Microsoft Excel can disrupt your whole graph. For example, if you create a bar graph showing the market share held by each company in ...

We discuss a comment on a previous post stating that the text of labels on the vertical axis of graphs must be horizontal by discussing the pros and cons of four possible positions for these labels.

When to use a bar graph in writing We can see information much more clearly using a bar graph: what you have counted along the bottom (the x-axis) and numbers up the left (the y-axis) ...

By embedding a chart in a Word 2013 document, you're using the same engine on which Excel relies, so shifting the axis to the graph's center mirrors Excel's procedure. In most cases, the ...

A Progress Chart is a graphical representation of the degree of completion of work in progress. help individuals to monitor their objectives.