Two columns or rows of data in Microsoft Excel may contain useful information, but you'll just have a set of numbers. You can give spreadsheet viewers a graphical representation of those numbers by ...

This example specifies a plot symbol on a SYMBOL statement and rotates the symbol through the colors list. Temperature values in the data are represented by the same plot symbol in a different color.

If you understand the definition of a mathematical function, a good way to judge it is that any line drawn parallel to the y-axis intersects with the values in the function’s curve only once. The same ...

This example shows how to fill the area between two plot lines by concatenating two data sets into one to form a polygon with the data points. It uses a SYMBOL statement to specify a pattern to fill ...

This post recommends using Trellis plots instead of 3D bar charts for three-dimensional (three variable) data. In Winner of the Bad Graph Contest Announced, I promised to present alternatives to Excel ...

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