Bar Graphs X And Y Axis. Step 1 open microsoft excel. Bar graphs have three key attributes.
A bar chart is a graph that is used to show comparisons across discrete categories. By definition these axes plural of axis are the two perpendicular lines on a graph where the labels are put. Bar graphs consist of two axes.
However by modifying the starting value of the y axis we can skew the interpretation of the chart.
In the below bar graph maker enter the data for graph title labels for x and y axes number of groups and group names and the data for x and y axes and click calculate to represent. The measurements on the axis usually begin at one rising in evenly spaced sections along the axis to show the different sizes of the statistic that is being displayed in the graph. For example in the chart below the red bar appears as being more than twice as big as the blue bar which is misleading compared to the data. One axis the x axis throughout this guide shows the categories being compared and the other axis the y axis in our case represents a measured value.
