Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research from Wellesley College published in the Journal of ...

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 ...

Sharon Machlis, IDG Hovering over a state’s bar in one graph highlights that state’s bars on both graphs. Data from Our World in Data. Link a map and bar chart with ggiraph This idea comes ...

This is problematic, the authors argue, because bar graphs that boil down data points to a single mean often fail to convey the nuances of the numbers. They add that very different data sets can ...

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range of data you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart. A bar graph represents the data of an Excel ...

You can make a bar graph in Google Sheets to make the data in your spreadsheet more digestible, useful, and visually appealing. Once you select the data in your spreadsheet needed for a graph ...