Learn some best practices for selecting the appropriate scale for your line graph, and how to avoid pitfalls that can distort or mislead your audience.

When you create a graph in Excel, the software automatically sizes the X and Y axis lines, so the data you want to display is shown. You can override the settings and set the vertical and ...

In this graph the intervals on the bottom axis are unequal, making it difficult to read. Scales should either start at zero, or be concertinaed (squashed) as shown in the y-axis in the above graph.

The minimum efficient scale (MES) is the point on a cost curve when a company can produce its product cheaply enough to offer it at a competitive price.

The representation of numbers in graphs should be proportional to the numbers themselves. Otherwise, they mislead or deceive. Examples of misleading graphs not drawn to scale and a figure with ...

Now that I’ve shown you an example that isn’t particularly effective, let me show you data where it is effective. Figure H shows a two- (High) and a three-scale (Low) pattern that exposes trends.

Point cloud has emerged as a scalable and flexible geometric representation for 3D data. Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) have shown superior performance and robustness in point cloud ...

This post offers reasons for using logarithmic scales, also called log scales, on charts and graphs. It explains when logarithmic graphs with base 2 are preferred to logarithmic graphs with base ...