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 graphics ...

Unless you’re a data scientist or have another job that commonly uses data visualization, selecting the right way to represent information can feel overwhelming. Software like Excel can stuff any type ...

Today we will see how to create a Histogram chart in Microsoft PowerPoint. A Histogram is a graphical representation that shows frequency data; it has a structure similar to a bar graph that organizes ...

Bar charts are a way to represent categorical data visually, in a horizontal or vertical display. Bars can be single, stacked, or grouped. By looking through the whole chart, it is easy to see the ...

Welcome to the latest in our occasional series highlighting interesting findings from academic research. Today – bar charts. Or, more precisely: why bar charts? Not, why push tactical voting and ‘we ...