Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research has found that bar graphs are frequently misunderstood ...

You can make a bar graph in Google Sheets to make the data in your spreadsheet more digestible, useful, and visually appealing. Once you select the data in your spreadsheet needed for a graph, you can ...

At its core, the SPARKLINE function in Google Sheets takes a row of numbers and turns them into a mini chart that lives right inside a single cell. Instead of inserting a full-sized chart that eats up ...

Can the users of financial statements and annual reports rely upon the charts in them for accuracy? A sample of 50 public ...

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 ...

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 ...

In geography it is important to be able to read and understand data that is presented in a range of different ways. We often use graphs to present data in a clear and accessible way. There are many ...

Shared on Facebook and Instagram, posts include a bar graph showing “murder of blacks and whites in the US, 2013” broken down by the races of the perpetrators. While the graph itself is accurate, the ...