Chapter 6. Creating Bar, Dot, and Pie Charts
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Creating bar charts with more than one factor variable
- Creating stacked bar charts
- Adjusting the orientation of bars – horizontal and vertical
- Adjusting bar widths, spacing, colors, and borders
- Displaying values on top of or next to the bars
- Placing labels inside bars
- Creating bar charts with vertical error bars
- Modifying dot charts by grouping variables
- Making better readable pie charts with clockwise-ordered slices
- Labeling a pie chart with percentage values for each slice
- Adding a legend to a pie chart
Introduction
In this chapter, we will look at bar, dot, and pie charts in detail. Bar charts are used commonly in reporting business data and scientific analysis. ...
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