[Yr11 Information Technology] Column v Bar Charts

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Speaking off the top of my head .. the convention in science is to put what you change on the x axis and what you measure on the y axis, favouring bar charts.

I suspect if you have too much data for a printed report, you can span a chart over more than one page using a portrait print mode, favouring column charts.

If students have too much time and software options, they can create a very confusing 3D chart spanning several variables with less good sense than the default.

Regards Roland

Roland Gesthuizen | eLearning Leader 
Keysborough College DEECD
http://about.me/rgesthuizen

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On 13/02/2013, at 6:06 PM, Anthony Sullivan <asullivan at tps.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> Are there situations when it is more appropriate to use a column chart compared to a bar chart and vice versa?
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> I do realise one is vertical and the other is horizontal but is there a particular reason why you would choose one over the other?
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> Aren’t they really serving the same purpose?
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