Different chart types emphasize different aspects of the data. I show a simple data set and plot it three simple ways to show that each emphasizes a different message. All use bar charts. The data ...

You might think of Microsoft's Excel as your only tool to handle data and create plots. But frankly, I hate to use Excel for charts and graphs because it lacks the flexibility I need and formatting ...

A reader need go no further than page two of Leland Wilkinson’s The Grammar of Graphics before reading, “We will also come to realize why a histogram is not a bar chart and why many other graphics ...

Body mass index (BMI) centile is recommended for assessing body fatness in children. We compared the reliability of two methods of deriving BMI centile. A total of 42 dietitians calculated the BMI ...

Ever wanted to know who the most verbose and studious rapper in hip-hop is? Which rappers use varied vocabularies and what MCs resort to repetition? Well, wonder no longer. One Matt Daniels has ...

l“We are starting to move into the paperless way of doing things,” international Capt. Nat Iyengar observed. The old school was the reporting form, or overwater log, which accompanied the flight plan ...