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Getting Started Making Charts 19
FIGURE 19.21
A pie chart with one slice exploded.
FIGURE 19.22
A bar of pie chart that shows detail for one of the pie slices.
XY (scatter) charts
Another common chart type is an XY chart (also known as scattergrams or scatter plots). An XY chart differs
from most other chart types in that both axes display values. (An XY chart has no category axis.)
This type of chart often is used to show the relationship between two variables. Figure 19.23 shows an
example of an XY chart that plots the relationship between sales calls made (horizontal axis) and actual sales
(vertical axis). Each point in the chart represents one month. The chart shows that these two variables are
positively related: Months in which more calls were made typically had higher sales volumes.
ON the CD-ROM
NOTE
A workbook that contains the charts in this section is available on the companion CD-ROM.
The file is named xy charts.xlsx.
Although these data points correspond to time, the chart doesn’t convey any time-related
information. In other words, the data points are plotted based only on their two values.
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