This post offers reasons for using logarithmic scales, also called log scales, on charts and graphs. It explains when logarithmic graphs with base 2 are preferred to logarithmic graphs with base 10.

Excel defaults to a linear scale for graphs, but you can easily change it to logarithmic to suit wide data ranges or logarithmic phenomena. The Chart Wizard produces graphs with linear scales. If ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. In “When Should I Use Logarithmic Scales in My Charts and Graphs”, I ...

A log scale graph, where one or both axes increase exponentially (1, 10, 100, instead of 1, 2, 3), data is compressed to make exponential trends easier to parse. However, log curves can distort ...

In my previous article, "How To Display Log Data Using Bubble Charts," I explained how bubble charts can be a convenient and useful tool for monitoring a datacenter.Equally useful for monitoring a ...

Logarithmic price scales tend to show less severe price increases or decreases than linear price scales. For example, if an asset price has collapsed from $100.00 to $10.00, the distance between ...

Graph analytics can be performed on any back end, as they only require reading graph-shaped data. Graph databases are databases with the ability to fully support both read and write, utilizing a ...