Minitab Cookbook

Creating a time series plot

Time series plots will generate a graph showing the values by their row number in the worksheet. As such, they will always generate a graph with an even distribution on the x axis.

In the following example, we will plot the mean maximum temperature that is recorded monthly at the Oxford weather station. As this data starts from 1853, we will subset this to all results from 2000 onwards.

Getting ready

We will use the data for the Oxford weather station in this example. This data is from the Met Office website and can be found at the following location:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/stationdata/

Select the Oxford station. The data is also made available in the Oxford data.txt file, which preserves the format from ...