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Sometimes bar graphs represent an average not a total count, which is trickier to understand. And because bar graphs are everywhere, psychologists from Wellesley College wanted to determine how well ...

The height of the bar indicates the quantity of a rainfall during that month. Image caption, Scientists can use bar graphs to sort and analyse data about the environment and climate.

Dodgy data analysis has come under fire in recent months, and now an article in PLoS Biology 1 takes aim at another staple of statistics. It argues that bar graphs used to describe a continuum of ...

Bar charts show grouped data as rectangular bars with spaces between the bars, e.g. the number of tourists visiting a resort each month. Figure caption, Bar chart: ...

Visualizations can help you understand data better – but they can also confuse or mislead. Here, some tips on what to watch out for. 3 questions to ask yourself next time you see a graph, chart ...