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 ...

The classic horizontal bar chart is something we’re all familiar with. For many of us, it was the first ‘chart’ we learnt in school, usually alongside Venn diagrams and line graphs. That’s because bar ...

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 ...

Shared on Facebook and Instagram, posts include a bar graph showing “murder of blacks and whites in the US, 2013” broken down by the races of the perpetrators. While the graph itself is accurate, the ...

I thought it would be an interesting exercise to see how easily someone without scruples could twist the same data to support whatever argument they wanted to make about the distribution of taxable ...