A new study suggests that the format in which graphs are presented may be biasing people into being too optimistic or pessimistic about the trends the graphs display. Academics from City, University ...

A reader need go no further than page two of Leland Wilkinson’s The Grammar of Graphics before reading, “We will also come to realize why a histogram is not a bar chart and why many other graphics ...

Discover how quality control charts help track product standards, pinpoint issues, and ensure processes meet specifications with this essential tool for quality assurance.

Bar graphs seem like one of the simplest ways to represent data. Many people assume that the longer the bar, the bigger the number it represents. Sometimes bar graphs represent an average not a total ...

Bar charts should be converted into accessible tables. Briefly describe the chart and give a summary if one is immediately apparent. Provide the title and axis labels. It is not necessary to describe ...

The classic horizontal bar chart is something we’re all familiar with. For many of us, it was the first ‘chart’ we learnt in school, usually alongside Venn diagrams and line graphs. That’s because bar ...

It is convenient to have a bar graph or table when communicating something on Twitter in an easy-to-understand manner, but it is difficult to create a graph as image data. In such a case, you can use ...

Viewing the distribution of related values from one entity to another is a frequent request, and that’s where Microsoft Excel floating bar charts can help. Instead of starting from the X axis, the low ...

Images, graphs, and tables are wonderful ways to communicate information quickly and effectively to an audience. However, they must be presented and organized correctly to be useful. All images, ...