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Core Graphs:
Displaying Data
■ Displaying Data Overview, 15-2
■ Symbols, 15-5
■ Connection Lines, 15-7
■ Projection Lines, 15-9
■ Areas, 15-10
■ Bars, 15-13
■ LOWESS Lines, 15-15
■ Stepped Connection Lines and Areas, 15-22
■ Base of Projection Lines, Areas, or Bars, 15-23
■ Direction for Projection Lines and Areas, 15-24
■ Lists of Symbols, Colors, Lines, and Fills, 15-26
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Chapter 15 Displaying Data Overview
Displaying Data Overview
One of the distinguishing features of core graphs is the rich variety of ways you can
display the data in your graph. For each core graph, you can represent the data with
one or more data display elements, such as symbols, lines that connect data points, and
areas. Each data display element has several attributes, such as size, color, and fill
pattern. You can change each of these attributes to achieve a wide range of effects.
You can also apply the attributes selectively. Most of the time, you will want to apply the
attributes to all the points in a graph at once (for example, turning all the symbols
blue). But you can also apply different attributes to each group of points (turning all the
symbols for 1991 blue and all the symbols for 1992 red), or apply different attributes to
each point in the graph (giving each symbol a different color). Below is a table of data
display elements and their attributes.
Element Definition Example Attributes
Symbols Dots, circles, squares, ■ type, color, and size of symbols
etc., that appear for
each point on the
graph
Connection lines Lines that connect ■ type, color, and size of lines
points ■ str