What is a bar chart in Excel?

A bar chart is one of Excel's primary chart types and a good choice for categorical data. Bar charts plot data using horizontal bars, so they are very easy to read because the human eye can easily compare bars. Also, because of the horizontal layout, bar charts have room to accommodate longer category names. Bar charts are also versatile.

What is a grouped bar chart?

It’s also referred to as a grouped bar chart. This type of bar chart aligns two bars next to each other for each category, each bar represented a different data group. As you can see, it’s best to be used to compare different sets of data. Another type of bar chart you can often see is stacked bar charts, also called segmented bar charts.

What is an interactive bar chart?

Well, this is not necessarily the case and our next type of bar graph will show you why. The interactive (or dynamic) bar chart is basically a traditional bar chart that can be explored in real-time using interactive dashboard filters. This enables users to go into lower or higher levels of the data and extract more detailed conclusions from it.

What color is a bar chart?

Bar charts can be colored coded where if the close is above the open it may be colored black or green, and if the close is below the open the bar may be colored red. A bar chart is a collection of price bars, with each bar showing price movements for a given period.