Bar Chart Axis Labels

1. What are the axis labels on a bar graph?
2. What are axis labels on a graph?
3. What labels should be on the axes of any graph?

What are the axis labels on a bar graph?

Bar graphs have an x-axis and a y-axis. In most bar graphs, like the one above, the x-axis runs horizontally (flat). Sometimes bar graphs are made so that the bars are sidewise like in the graph below. Then the x-axis has numbers representing different time periods or names of things being compared.

What are axis labels on a graph?

Axis labels are words or numbers that mark the different portions of the axis. Value axis labels are computed based on the data displayed in the chart. Category axis labels are taken from the category headings entered in the chart's data range. Axis titles are words or phrases that describe the entire axis.

What labels should be on the axes of any graph?

The independent variable belongs on the x-axis (horizontal line) of the graph and the dependent variable belongs on the y-axis (vertical line). The x and y axes cross at a point referred to as the origin, where the coordinates are (0,0).