Examples of misleading graphs not drawn to scale and a figure with unevenly spaced tick marks are shown. ... When I see a graph without a scale I take out my ruler and measure the heights of the bars.

Graphs that are not drawn to scale mislead the reader. This post shows another example of a graph where the visual representation of the numbers is not proportional to the numbers themselves.

Our example shows a line chart of the monthly sales performance of two branches in a year (from January to December). In this case, the line chart quickly tells us that Branch 1 shows steady ...

How to Make Your Graph to the Same Scale on a Vertical & Horizontal Axis in Excel. When you create a graph in Excel, the software automatically sizes the X and Y axis lines, so the data you want ...

Some line graphs use a false origin. ... In this example, the scale is days of the week. Unlike a bar chart, the labels go on the lines, not in the spaces. Image caption, ...

On the Cabinet Office’s graph, one axis – showing the number of deaths – has equally-sized gaps to stand in for different numerical increases – with 0 to 100; 100 to 1,000 and 1,000 to ...