Bar Chart

  

Categories: Metrics

No, it's not a chart comparing neighborhood watering holes by quality of the food and drink to the attractiveness of the clientele.

It's a type of graph good for visually comparing the differences in the number or probability of non-numerical (categorical) data like colors, different investments, countries, etc.

Bars should all start from 0 and be separated by some blank space between categories.

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Finance: What are lenders?27 Views

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finance a la shmoop what are lenders is that a bagel company hmm okay well maybe

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it doesn't matter here lenders are the people and institutions

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and countries who loan money banks are lenders they loan money for small [woman walks into bank]

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business for big business and well everything in between

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banks are big lenders they generally focus on large amounts for big

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corporations and take their spread then you have savings and loans well they're

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smaller more intimate local cousins of the banks and they focus on local loans

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like your local flower shop needs 25 grand in credit but lenders also sell a [flowers in a store]

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special kind of loan a mortgage for when you want to buy a home and the interest

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on mortgages is distinctively tax-deductible your big brother can also

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be a lender that hundred bucks he loaned you yeah is not like the hundred that [sister approaches big brother]

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grandmama quote loaned you unquote ie Big Brother's long does not just get

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naturally forgotten his alone carries interest in newgy penalties when it's [fist appears as sister smiles]

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not paid back to lenders it's people who loan money lending loaning got in there

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kind of related [sister being nuggied]

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