This document provides instructions for making a vertical bar graph in 6 steps: 1. Collect the data to be visualized, such as population by country. 2. Give the graph a title and draw perpendicular x- and y-axes. 3. Label the x-axis with the categories of data. 4. Label the y-axis with the values or quantities represented. 5. Draw vertical bars on the graph extending from the x-axis up to the values on the y-axis for each category. 6. Interpret the data by looking for outliers, gaps, frequently occurring values, and clusters.

1. Steps on
how to
make
Vertical Bar
Graph
By Johaina Nor

2. What is an Vertical Bar
Graph?
Vertical bar graph. Data
displayed using vertical bars.
The vertical bars have
lengths that are proportional
to quantities they represent. It
is usually used when one
axis cannot have a numerical
scale.

3. How to
make a
Vertical
Bar
Graph?

4. 1. Collect your data
The first thing you have to do is to
collect all of your data. Remember
that a bar graph should show a
comparison among categories.
Let's say your goal is the
population by country. Once you
have this data, you can begin to
draw the graph.

6. 2. Give the title of the bar graph
Example:
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Category 1 Category 2 Category 3
Population By Country
Series 1

7. 2. Draw an x and y-axis
 This will look like a large "L" shape. Bar
charts are often drawn when one set of
data is expressed as a set of categories
(which can be periods of time), in which
case this set will be the base. The other
axis will be values (sales, costs, grades,
scores, production amounts, other
quantities, etc.) for the base categories,
groups or periods.

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Population By Country
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X- axis
Y-
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9. 3. Label the x-axis
Example:
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400,000,000
600,000,000
800,000,000
1,000,000,000
1,200,000,000
1,400,000,000
1,600,000,000
X- axis
Population by Country
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10. 4. Label the y-axis
Example:
Population by CountryY-axis
Country
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11. 5. Draw your bars
 Extend the base you have marked on the
bottom axis to the horizontal line labelled
with the value of that bar. If the value falls
between two lines, approximate where
the correct value would lie. Notice that
bars are normally separated (not
continuous), as they are comparing the
value of different but comparable events,
unless this is a distribution.

12. Example:
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200,000,000
400,000,000
600,000,000
800,000,000
1,000,000,000
1,200,000,000
1,400,000,000
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13. 6. Interpret the data
Now that you've made your bar
graph, you can have a better sense
of the data because you can
visualize it. Now you can take a step
back and take a look at the
important aspects of this data. Here
are some things to look for:

14. Outliers. Outliers are the pieces of data
that fall outside the range of normal
data that you gathered.
Gaps. Look for gaps between the data.
Frequency. See if there's an amount
that is frequently occurring.
Clusters. Look for clusters of data.

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16. Thank you for
listening!

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