Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research from Wellesley College published in the Journal of ...

Bar graphs are graphical representations of statistical data in the form of strips or bars. This allows viewers to understand the difference between the various parameters of the data at a glance ...

It charts the numeric variable AGE, with the frequency statistic. Because the values of AGE are continuous, the procedure automatically divides the ages into ranges and displays the midpoint of each ...

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 ...

See how easy it is to create interactive web graphs from ggplot2 visualizations with the ggiraph R package. You can even link graphs so that clicking one dataviz affects the display of another. Static ...

Bar charts are a way to represent categorical data visually, in a horizontal or vertical display. Bars can be single, stacked, or grouped. By looking through the whole chart, it is easy to see the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Graphs are pictorial representations of numbers. Therefore, at the least, we ...

If you’re a biomedical researcher and you’re using bar graphs for continuous data, Tracey L. Weissgerber has one word for you: “Stop.” Weissgerber, a physiologist at Mayo Clinic, is on a crusade to ...

At a press conference in New York City on Saturday, Mayor Bill de Blasio brought along a bar graph that he said represented the evidence necessary to show that a lethal outbreak of Legionnaires’ ...

A popular bar graph on social media claims to show that the number of human trafficking arrests skyrocketed under President Donald Trump, compared to those under former President Barack Obama. But the ...