Microsoft Excel charts give you a large number of options for displaying the data in your spreadsheet. Sometimes, it is useful and informative to plot two different sets of data on the same chart, ...

Graphs in Microsoft Excel typically chart time on the horizontal axis. Time is the independent variable in most relationships and dependent variables appear on the vertical axis. Some charts, though, ...

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Dual-axis graphs, which have two y-axes, are useful because they allow you to see different data at a glance. However, this graph has many problems, and Datawrapper, a data visualization tool, ...

I blew it! In my post earlier this morning about charts with dual y-axes I picked some miscellaneous data as an illustration. Then I saw a tweet about an article written in October that lays out the ...

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If you write things on the Internet, angry email is inevitable. If you make charts on the Internet, angry email about those charts is inevitable. Especially if your charts sometimes use a y-axis that ...

If you write things on the internet, angry email is inevitable. If you make charts on the internet, angry email about those charts is inevitable. Especially if your charts sometimes use a y-axis that ...