Bar charts are too frequently used to communicate data that they cannot represent well. We strongly encourage the use of more appropriate plots to display statistical samples. Bar charts are a simple ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Last week’s post, “A Histogram is NOT a Bar Chart ”, explained that bar charts ...

Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet and data analysis program, is available as a stand-alone program or as a component of the Microsoft Office productivity suite. Excel 2007 included a number of new ...