Naming Basics Best practice recommendations are to create a chart placing independent variables on the horizontal, x-axis and dependent variables on the vertical, y-axis.

The X-axis, which is the horizontal axis, on most Excel charts does not use numeric intervals like the vertical Y-axis does. The X-axis contains either strings of text or a date under each set of ...

The values are plotted across the y-axis and the x-axis is used to mark the progression. In the case of a scatter plot, whether you use it simply with marking points or lines, the graph is spread ...