Graphs and charts are great because they communicate information visually. For this reason, graphs are often used in newspapers, magazines and businesses around the world.

Sometimes, complicated information is difficult to understand and needs an illustration. Graphs or charts can help impress people by getting your point across quickly and visually.

Here you will find five different graphs and charts for you to consider. Not sure about which graph to use? Confused between bar graphs and pie charts? Read the following.

Pie graph: showspercentages of a whole, and represents percentages at a set point in time.

Bar graphs: Shows howsomething changes over time or to compare items.

• X-axis (horizontal) has numbers for the time period or what is being measured.
• Y-axis (vertical) has numbers for the amount of stuff being measured.

Line graphs: Showshow something changes over time or a trend to change.

• X-axis (horizontal) has numbers for the time period.
• Y-axis (vertical) has numbers for what is being measured.