I've been reading Edward Tufte's "The Visual Display of Quantitative
Information" (which, by the way, I can whole heartedly recommend to anyone
with a personal/professional interest in statistical graphics).

Anyway, I'd love to implement some of his ideas. For example - using a
chart's axes as a 'range frame' - so that each axis is only shown from the
minimum to maximum of both variables plotted . Meaning that the axes
themselves carry information .

Does anyone know if or how this could be done in excel? An add-in maybe?
Also, things like showing the tick marks but not the axis lines themselves?

Any help would be appreciated or if anyone else has implemented some of
Tufte's techniques I'd really appreciate advice as to how, within the
constraints of Excel's charting abilities.

Jay
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