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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. This article is more than 10 years old. This is the first post in a new blog ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Graphs are pictorial representations of numbers. Therefore, at the least, we ...

One way of demonstrating how businesses manage their stock levels is to use a bar gate stock diagram like the one below. The maximum stock level is the largest amount of stock a business can store on ...

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