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Creating Charts That Show Trends
IN THIS CHAPTERC reating Charts That ShowTrends3 Choosing a Chart TypeYou have two excellent choices when Creating chartsthat show the progress of some value over Western cultures are used to seeing timeprogress from left to right, you are likely to choosea chart where the axis moves from left to right whether it s a column chart, line chart, or you have only a few data points, you can use acolumn chart. Column Charts work easily for 4quarters or 12 months. Within the column chartcategory, you can choose between 2-D and 3-Dstyles. If you want to highlight one component of asales trend, you can use a stacked column chart. Choosing a Chart Type ..81 Understanding a Date-Based Axis Versus aCategory-Based Axis ..84 Using a Chart to Communicate Effectively.
If you are plotting stock market data, you can use stock charts to show the trend of stock data over time. You can also use high-low-close charts to show the trend of data that might occur in a range (for example, if you have to track a range of quality rankings for each day). You might think that a bar chart could be used to show time trends.
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