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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Nov 17, 2011, 09:57am EST Nov 20, 2011, 07:38am EST This article is more than ...

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, looked at more than 600 research articles published in top physiology journals in early 2014, and found that bar graphs were used to describe ...

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range of data you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart. A bar graph represents the data of an Excel ...

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 ...

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 ...