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About graphs
422 DataWindow .NET
Area, bar, column, and line graphs
Area, bar, column, and line graphs are conceptually very similar. They differ
only in how they physically represent the data values—whether they use areas,
bars, columns, or lines to represent the values. All other properties are the
same. Typically you use area and line graphs to display continuous data and use
bar and column graphs to display noncontinuous data.
The only difference between a bar graph and a column graph is the orientation:
in column graphs, values are plotted along the y axis and categories are plotted
along the x axis. In bar graphs, values are plotted along the x axis and
categories are plotted along the y axis.
Pie graphs
Pie graphs typically show one series of data points with each data point shown
as a percentage of a whole. The following pie graph shows the sales for Stellar
printers for each quarter. You can easily see the relative values in each quarter.
(DataWindow Designer automatically calculates the percentages of each slice
of the pie.)
You can have pie graphs with more than one series if you want; the series are
shown in concentric circles. Multiseries pie graphs can be useful in comparing
series of data.