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Broken Bar
Broken Bar
Bar charts are used for comparing two or more values. The bars can be horizontally or vertically
oriented. Sometimes a stretched graphic is used instead of a solid bar
A broken bar graph is used when one value, or a few values, goes up very high. Instead of
scaling everything down, the abnormally high value is indicated with the broken bar graph. Of
course, a number also has to be indicated, so that anybody who reads the bar graph can find out
what the number actually is.
The lower values here are difficult to read. We need to create a chart that shows BOTH the upper
and lower values - A broken bar like this: