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 ...

If you’ve ever sat through a PowerPoint presentation or read a quarterly report, you’ve probably been bored by a chart or graph. Chances are, it was blue, red, and yellow on a gray, lined background.

There are various types of graphs used to visually represent data, such as bar graphs, pie charts, and histograms. Chenxing Li, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Georgia's Center for ...