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Week 8: Communicating with data

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This vertical bar chart has the same axes and source as the previous chart. However the title reads ‘Male and female guests at hotel’ and the key shows two categories male and female. For each category, there are two bars next to each other, the left hand bar represents the male guests and right hand bar represents the female guests. For the Irish category, the top of the left-hand bar is opposite the 10 on the vertical scale and the top of the right-hand bar is opposite the 7. For the British category, the top of the left-hand bar is opposite the 4 on the vertical scale and the top of the right-hand bar is opposite the 10. For the mainland European category, the top of the right-hand bar is opposite the 2 on the vertical scale and the top of the left-hand bar is also opposite the 2. For the rest of the world category, the top of the left-hand bar is opposite the 5 on the vertical scale and the top of the right-hand bar is opposite the 7.

 3.3 Comparative bar charts