From the course: Excel Data Visualization: Mastering 20+ Charts and Graphs

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,700 courses taught by industry experts.

Bar and column charts

Bar and column charts - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

From the course: Excel Data Visualization: Mastering 20+ Charts and Graphs

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Bar and column charts

“

- [Instructor] Alright, at this point we've gone through the groundwork, we've talked about data vis best practices, gone into inserting, customizing, formatting charts and templates in Excel. Now it's time for the good stuff. Now it's time to actually do some deep dives into each of these chart types. So we're going to kick things off with bar and column charts, one of the most common chart options in Excel and these are commonly used for things like comparing numerical data across categories. The only real difference between a bar and a column is the orientation, so bar charts kind of do a really good job at categorical comparisons and column charts can show the same thing or also introduce some element of time series trending. So data by category, by month, by year, by quarter, whatever it might be. So some examples of data sets that you might visualize with bar or column charts include things like total sales by product type, population by different countries, or revenue by…

Contents