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Authoring a PhD How to plan, draft, write and finish a doctoral thesis or dissertation Patrick ... ( PDFDrive )
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Figure 7.1
Eight main types of chart (and when to
use them)
(a)
Vertical bar chart
A (hypothetical) index of US potato production, 1997–2003
Use a vertical bar chart when you have simple overtime data that are not really continuous, but cover discrete time-periods;
– you have other appropriate comparative data where the labels for each bar are short enough to fit underneath it.
Don’t use vertical bar charts if the bars in the chart have long data labels, especially not where you would need to use numbers or a key for labels to fit anything in the column labels.
Points to watch put numbers inside columns, not on top of them if data is not chronological or in categories with a fixed order, aim to achieve a numerical progression.

1 7 AUTHORING AP H D 10 Respondents nominating issue in top three issues (%)
30 40 50 60 57 55 37 21 12 6
Economy/
unemployment
Health care
Education
Issue
Others
Immigration/race relations
Defence/foreign affairs
(b)
Horizontal bar chart
British voters views of the most important political issues,
September 2001 (hypothetical)
Use a horizontal bar chart whenever you have comparative data where the labels for each bar are too long to fit underneath columns easily.
Don’t use horizontal bar charts if readers will expect to see columns (e.g. for overtime data).
Points to watch put numbers inside columns, not outside their right-end;
– aim to achieve a numerical progression in almost all cases (unless data is in categories with a fixed order or is chronological).

HANDLING ATTENTION POINTS Equity release from mortgage
7%
Other
5%
Loans
16%
Credit card
45%
Bank overdraft
27%
(c)
Pie chart
The main sources of finance for major consumer

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