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Making a line graph.

Make a line graph in your browser of numbers over time, a line for each column, saved as PNG, SVG or PDF. Nothing uploaded, no sign-up.

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A bar chart of visitors and sign-ups by month, in teal and orange

A line shows how something changed.

A line for each column.

Put dates or names in the first column and a column of numbers for each line; each gets its own colour and a legend.

Missing numbers.

Where a number is missing the line breaks, rather than drawing a value that is not there.

The scale.

It starts at zero unless you turn that off, which makes small changes look larger, as the page says.

Further reading

Topics: line graph maker · line chart maker · graph over time · make a line graph · multiple line graph

A little less theory. A little more doing.

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