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Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Data presentation....2

Continuing with the query posed at the end of last week' post, at the most basic level, there are two options available :
  1. Bar Chart
  2. Line Graph
A Bar Chart created with the help of tools available in Excel, will look like



A Line Graph will look like :


Which one of the two above conveys the message better ?

In my view, it is the Line Graph, as it shows a "trend" of the three stocks over a periof of twelve months.

The Bar Chart is more colourfl and can coney the same message, but one has to look a lot more closely.

The idea of pictorial representation should be to convey the message at one glance.

Any other ways of conveying the message at one glance ?