Tired of searching for the right graph paper for school? Graph Paper Maker lets you make your own.

This online graph paper generator will allow you to make your own graph paper, and even customize it to suit your needs. With things like multi-weight lines, and polar graphs and much more.

These minitron bar graph units could only be viewed from the top, and were apparently high in cost and low in availability.

The takeaway: every bar graph needs a zero on its scale. If you see one without a zero, be careful. In a future post I'll discuss whether line graphs and other graphs also need a zero on their scales.

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart.