Most online and brokerage charting software can display different styles of charts. The two most common types of price scales used to analyze price movements are: Logarithmic price scale—also ...

I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. There are two main reasons to use logarithmic scales in charts and graphs. The first is to respond to skewness towards large values; i.e., cases ...

A logarithmic price scale, also referred to as a "log scale", is a type of scale used on a chart that is plotted such that two equivalent price changes are represented by the same vertical ...

Excel defaults to a linear scale for graphs, but you can easily change it to logarithmic to suit wide data ranges or logarithmic phenomena. The Chart Wizard produces graphs with linear scales.

In a log scale, each point on the vertical axis is a multiple of the point below it. On a linear scale -- the scale most people are accustomed to seeing in charts -- the points represent equal ...

logarithmic charts are an essential tool that must be understood. There are two basic scales for price on the vertical axis in stock charts: a linear scale, and the logarithmic scale. A linear ...

They showed people the following two charts: I think they put their finger on the scale by starting the y-axis of the log chart at 0.1, but I don’t suppose many people actually noticed that.

I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. In “When Should I Use Logarithmic Scales in My Charts and Graphs”, I showed the revenues of the top 60 Forbes 500 companies using both ...

But sharp-eyed observers will note that the chart is in log scale, not linear scale. In a regular linear scale graph -- the type of scale everyone is used to seeing on a daily basis in everything ...

The data look very different when plotted on what is called a logarithmic scale. In a typical graph, values on the (vertical) y-axis are plotted linearly: 1, 2, 3, and so on, or 10, 20 ...