Different chart types emphasize different aspects of the data. I show a simple data set and plot it three simple ways to show that each emphasizes a different message. All use bar charts. The data ...

Sailors interested in building their very own computer-controlled chart plotter using the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC may be interested in a project created earlier this year by James Conger, which ...

Q. As a conclusion to each project, we evaluate our project time and cost estimates for accuracy. Obviously, underestimating is a problem, but over-estimating is also a problem that leads to ...

You might think of Microsoft's Excel as your only tool to handle data and create plots. But frankly, I hate to use Excel for charts and graphs because it lacks the flexibility I need and formatting ...

A climograph can be easily generated with Excel as documented in Creating a Climograph in Excel and Directions for Using Excel to Make a Colorful Climograph. While it is a little more work to generate ...

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 ...

Ever wanted to know who the most verbose and studious rapper in hip-hop is? Which rappers use varied vocabularies and what MCs resort to repetition? Well, wonder no longer. One Matt Daniels has ...