Briefle words · Data & charts
Shared axis
Also called common scale
Giving charts shown together the same axis range, so equal heights mean equal values and the panels can be compared directly.
Say it to an AI
Two small bar charts side by side, email and chat tickets per week for the last five weeks, each with its total in the panel heading. They must use a shared axis (common scale) from 0 to 160 with the same tick labels and a zero baseline so the channels can be compared by eye.
How an expert would brief the stronger version of “Tickets by channel panels”.
See it
Try it as a puzzle →Two side-by-side bar charts on a helpdesk reporting page for a SaaS support team.
Why: A's Chat panel keeps the 0 to 160 ticks of the Email panel; B's Chat panel runs 0 to 50 and its bars reach the top.
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