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document.write('Dot Plots.'); document.write('Often when a series of values and corresponding labels is to be plotted, the chart of choice is a bar chart. This is a reasonably straightforward chart, easy to make and fairly clear in its presentation. A "Dot Plot" is a way to chart the same information that is cleaner and according to research more easily understood. The chart still displays labels along a vertical axis, while the data is charted as dots, spaced horizontally according to its value. This page also links to a utility which can be used to generate Dot Plots directly from worksheet data. '); document.write(' |