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Bar Graphs: How To Create A Perfect Bar Graph

Bar graphs can be used to compare data between different groups or track changes over time. They have a title, legend, source, x-axis, and y-axis. The title provides an overview, the legend identifies what each bar represents, and the source cites where the data came from. The x-axis is typically horizontal and represents categories, while the y-axis is vertical and represents numeric values. Bar graphs are best for displaying larger changes over time or comparing related categories.

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Bar Graphs: How To Create A Perfect Bar Graph

Bar graphs can be used to compare data between different groups or track changes over time. They have a title, legend, source, x-axis, and y-axis. The title provides an overview, the legend identifies what each bar represents, and the source cites where the data came from. The x-axis is typically horizontal and represents categories, while the y-axis is vertical and represents numeric values. Bar graphs are best for displaying larger changes over time or comparing related categories.

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Bar Graphs

how to create a perfect bar graph

Bar Graphs

Bar graphs can be used to show how something changes over time or to compare different times.

Bar Graphs
Bar graphs are good for plotting data that spans many years (or days, weeks . . .), has really big changes from year to year (or day to day . . .), or they can be used for comparing different items in a related category (for example: comparing something between different states).

Title Legend Source X-axis Y-Axis

Parts of a Bar Chart

The Title
The title offers a short explanation of what is in your graph. This helps the reader identify what they are about to look at.

The Legend
The legend tells us what each bar represents. Just like on a map, the legend helps the reader understand what they are looking at. If a graph has more than one color bar, the legend will have more than one entry.

The Source The source explains where you found the information that is in your graph. It is important to give credit to those who collected your data!

X-Axis
Bar graphs have an x-axis and a y-axis. In most bar graphs, the x-axis runs horizontally (flat).

Y-Axis
In most bar graphs, the y-axis runs vertically (up and down). Typically, the y-axis has numbers for the amount of stuff being measured. The y-axis usually starts counting at 0 and can be divided into as many equal parts as you want to.

(no more than 5-7 parts)

When to use a Bar Graph


Bar graphs are used to compare things between different groups or to track changes over time. However, when trying to measure change over time, bar graphs are best when the changes are larger.

also
Data-The most important part of your graph is the
information, or data, it contains. Bar graphs can present data in many ways and can present more than one group of data at a time.

For more information


http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/ Download, print and place in your class notebook the following document. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/pdf/graph_tutorial.p df

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