This may seem like a minor point, but in fact it's a critical factor in how we perceive the information in a bar graph. We judge the value of the bars in a bar graph by their lengths. We cannot do ...

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 ...

Two graphs walk into a bar: Readout-based measurement reveals the Bar-Tip Limit error, a common, categorical misinterpretation of mean bar graphs. Journal of Vision , 2021; 21 (12): 17 DOI: 10. ...

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, looked at more than 600 research articles published in top physiology journals in early 2014, and found that bar graphs were used to ...

Turkey’s bar, as a result, jumps from 10% to 30%, saving 20 percentage points of space on the diagram. The same method is applied to the organisation’s food inflation chart. Turkey remained in ...

A single large value in Microsoft Excel can disrupt your whole graph. For example, if you create a bar graph showing the market share held by each company in your industry, a single dominant ...

Academics found that when people made predictions about how a trend would develop over time, they made lower judgements when the trend was presented as a 'bar chart' type graph than when exactly ...