Let’s look at the behavior of line charts and the category axis. Here is some simple data I made up just for this exercise, and a typical line chart plotting the data.
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Okay, not too boring. Let’s see what happens if we split the data into two series, red and blue. The red series will include points 1 to 5, and the blue will include points 5 to 11. This is how we might plot actual and predicted data on the same chart, or perhaps data by quarter or year in separate series.
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