
Pie charts are elegant in their simplicity but are easily misused. The same data in a column chart and a bar chartĬhoosing one of these over the other is usually a practical issue: what fits better on a printed page or Web page, or whether you need to accommodate a long label. Use a column (vertical) or bar (horizontal) chart to compare data by group or category: the output of Widget Factories A, B, and C starting salaries of popular post-grad degree holders or the monthly average rainfall in your city for each month last year. You know what a line chart is you might even know that its main use is to highlight the rate of change over time, for either a single item or in a comparison of multiple items. And what about their offshoots-area charts, stacked bars, and donuts? Pick the wrong one, and your readers might not be able to draw any conclusions or, perhaps worse, could draw the wrong conclusion. Standard ChartsĮveryone’s familiar with the common line, bar, and pie charts, but familiarity doesn’t necessarily lead to understanding which one makes the most sense in a given situation. But when you want to turn numbers into pictures, you need to use the right kind of picture in order to get the information across. #1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announcedĬharts in Apple’s Numbers Spreadsheet: Which One When?Īpple’s Numbers spreadsheet app offers a wide variety of charts to help interpret the data in its tables (as does its Pages word processor).1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.

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