Preparing the Stacked Bar Chart
For this project, we're going to start working on a stacked bar chart that displays the population of each state.
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The next project we are going to start drawing is a stacked bar chart. Bar charts are a popular type of visualization. They are not to be confused with histograms.
Histograms vs. bar charts
There is a difference between the two. Both charts use bars to represent data. They both have an x-axis and a y-axis.
Histograms show the frequency of data. We saw an example of a histogram when we drew different types of weather data. Each bar did not represent a single value. Instead, the bars represented the frequency of values within a given range.
Bar charts are different because each bar represents one value. By representing one value, we can compare data easily. Here is a great article that details the differences between the two types of visualizations: