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 ...

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.

Figure 5 shows a line graph where the tick marks are not spaced evenly and do not appear to be an easily recognizable non-linear scale. It shows how easily our eyes can pick up this kind of ...

The graph can be used to convert any value from one scale to the other. For example, 4 miles is approximately 6.4 kilometres and 4 kilometres is approximately 2.5 miles. Another way to plot the ...