Bar table FarmFruitCratesHollis HillApplesBramble RowApplesTern CreekPearsGable EndApplesOld MillPearsQuarry BendPlumsStoneyardPeachesFernwoodPlumsWynn AcresPeachesSorrel LanePeachesLarkspurCherriesHeron FlatsCherries Put a small bar beside each number and magnitudes can be compared without leaving the table: digits for precision, bars for proportion. Like any bar, each starts at zero. Karsten noted that printers could already set such bars in type: “Printers have ‘rules’ as they call them, which can be used to make solid bars, and these rules can easily be set up together with the type” (Karl G. Karsten, Charts and Graphs, 1923, p. 109). Also called: data-bar table, table with in-cell bars From: Table Data as of 16:13 UTC on 20 Oct 2026 made withdbt Charts