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.

In fact, I think the floating bar option is practically hidden. Once you find it, the placement makes sense: You create a line chart and then add the Up/Down Bars element. SEE: Software ...

A reader need go no further than page two of Leland Wilkinson’s The Grammar of Graphics before reading, “We will also come to realize why a histogram is not a bar chart and why many other ...

The table shows the results. Construct a bar chart that represents these results. Image caption, To construct a bar chart first identify the largest frequency. The largest frequency is 12.

If you’re curious whether you’ve been missing the bar with your chart interpretation skills, try out this little challenge below that mirrors the study by Kerns and Wilmer. You’ll need something to ...

What is a Gantt Chart? Find out how to create and use a Gantt chart to organize project timelines and make your processes more efficient.

Academics found that when people made predictions about how a trend would develop over time, they made lower judgements when the trend was presented as a 'bar chart' type graph than when exactly ...