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Line Plots and Scatter Plots with Excel

Line plots and scatter plots are used to visualise two variables. In this video, Adrian Gepp explains how to make them using Excel.

In this video, Adrian explains how to construct line plots and scatter plots using Excel. Hopefully you find them useful the next time you want to investigate the relationship between two variables.

You should now be comfortable with how to create bar charts, pie charts, histograms, line plots, and scatter plots using Excel. I hope you’re excited to get to using those!

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Next up, we’ll start learning about some descriptive statistics to describe data numerically as well as visually.

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Data Analytics for Decision Making: An Introduction to Using Excel

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