On the grid above, the point is 4 units along the x-axis and 3 units up the y-axis. Its coordinates are (4, 3). If the point moves 2 units left and 1 unit down, the new coordinates will be (2, 2).

The DCCC, the House Democrats' campaign arm, tweeted a wildly misleading chart Thursday. Celebrating a 2 cent decrease in the price of gas, the chart's X-axis makes it look more dramatic. At ...

A data table alone has no axes, horizontal or otherwise. It consists of points of data; each point describes at least two pieces of information. Other points convey different numerical data about ...

Most notably, each chart type uses data differently, so you need to add Y-axis entries differently, depending on the type you use. Scatter Charts Scatter charts use two columns of data for each point.