How to Create a Chart/Graph - continued

Creating a Bar Graph

Let’s create a bar graph showing the average annual rainfall in four cities. We have the following information:

City	Rainfall
Toronto	750 mm
Vancouver	1100 mm
Halifax	1400 mm
Winnipeg	500 mm




First, let’s start with a rough drawing of a vertical and horizontal line. Technically, these are called the “horizontal axis” and the “vertical axis”. We’ll label our graph “Average Annual Rainfall by City”:	Now let’s label each axis. We’ll put the rainfall on the vertical axis and the cities on the horizontal axis (We could just as easily have reversed these, but it’s more conventional this way).
	Note that we remembered to put the units (“mm” or millimetres) by the Rainfall label so that everyone would know exactly how much rain we’re talking about.