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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here is the data for the ages of customers shopping in the Bitesize CD store. Ages of customers in 1-hour period 25, 29, 45, 19, 36, 17, 60, 51, 39, 24, 15, 13, 31 ...

Bar graphs are used to show sets of data in more specific categories. 32 students were asked which season was their favourite. The table shows the results. Construct a bar chart that represents these ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. This article is more than 10 years old. This is the first post in a new blog ...

Making any graph 3D in Illustrator is quite easy. You do not have to create the graph in another software and then place it in Illustrator. Illustrator provides the tools to create the graph. You can ...

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 ...