User Guide

Kind of chart Icon
Stacked Area
Pie
Scatter
Mixed
2-Axis
3D charts can be any of the above types, except
scatter, mixed, or 2-axis. Shown here is a 3D pie
chart.
Example
You may want to create a chart that compares how bird populations have changed in
two alpine sampling regions between 2007 and 2010. This data may rst be presented
in a table with rows for Region 1 and Region 2. The researcher has counted the
number of birds in each region each year from 2007 through 2010, thus having 4 data
points (or values) for each region.
If you plot this data as a column chart, it looks like the one below:
The data sets contain
one data point (one
bar) from each of the
data series.
The chart legend denotes the
two data series.
In this chart, Region 1 and Region 2 are called the data series because the data
points (numbers of birds) from each region are represented by a series of columns
of the same color, one for each year. Each column for Region 1 is set beside the
corresponding column for Region 2, and each side-by-side set of columns is called
a data set or category (2007 is a category, 2008 is a category, and so on).
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