A file houseafford.dat stores on its three lines years, median incomes and median home prices for a city. The dollar amounts are in thousands. For example, it might look like this:

A file houseafford.dat stores on its three lines years, median 

incomes and median home prices for a city. The dollar amounts are in 

thousands. For example, it might look like this:

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

72 74 74 77 80 83 89 93

250 270 300 310 350 390 410 380

Create a file in this format, and then load the information into a 

matrix. Create a horizontal stacked bar chart to display the 

information, with an appropriate title. Note: use the ‘XData’ property 

to put the years on the axis as shown in Figure 11.35.

Figure 12.33 Horizontal stacked bar chart of median incomes and home prices