Plot data with months on X and numerical value on Y

Hello I have an excel file with column 1 as montly data in the fromat dec,jan,feb.... and the column 2 has sales value. I have imported this matlab. but how do i plot this in bar graph ?

Answer 1

[Eric Delgado]

See image below...

[Priyadarshan Priyadarshan]

Thanks. I did that. But I have got some weird graph.

[Adam Danz]

What do you expect to see? Do you want 1 bar for each data point? Are you expecting to see 12 bars, one for each month? Or perhaps groups of bars by year? What's your goal?

[Priyadarshan Priyadarshan]

Ah my bad, the date format was wrong

[Priyadarshan Priyadarshan]

@Adam Danz @Eric Delgado Hello,

If the dates are in format mm-dd-yyyy hh:mm:ss vs value. How can I plot the graph for this? Could you please advise me on this

[Adam Danz]

@Priyadarshan Priyadarshan

if you are using datetime values, then it doesn't matter what date-time format they have when plotting. Are you asking about how to read-in datetime data.