I think this sort of graph begs for downstream user misinterpretation, but I have had students ask me how to do this:

So, here’s a thermometer graph tutorial from Susan Harkins at TechRepublic.


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I wish you would tag all 20 of your Excel Tips with "Excel Tips". They are much, much better than average and it would be great to have access to all of them with one click.
Posted by: jim` | March 21, 2012 at 11:47 AM
That's a great suggestion ...
But, I'm not sure how feasible it would be for me to find some of the old ones (as you can imagine, I didn't start that out with the intention of having a series). In theory I can get them all of the servers, but I'm not sure how many hoops I'd have to jump through.
In the meantime, if you type "excel tip" into the Google search box at the top right of my site, it will come up with links to almost all of them except 7, 4 and 1 on the first couple of pages.
I will look for the others.
There is also an Excel category if you scroll down on the right ... but I didn't start that until I had a bunch of Excel tips ... and obviously I didn't go back and add the older ones to it.
Posted by: Dave Tufte | March 21, 2012 at 01:21 PM