Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research has found that bar graphs are frequently ...

A psychology study found that bar graphs representing averages were prone to misinterpretation. Plus, how to improve your data literacy.

You can insert a chart in Excel by selecting your dataset, heading over to the Insert tab, and clicking the chart type you want in the Charts group of the ribbon. Then, you can customize them by ...

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart.

See how easy it is to create interactive web graphs from ggplot2 visualizations with the ggiraph R package. You can even link graphs so that clicking one dataviz affects the display of another.

Bar graphs are designed to show categorized data. But they are often used for other types of data, partly because they are easier to make using Microsoft Excel than are other kinds of charts ...

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You can make a bar graph on Google Sheets to make the data in your spreadsheet more digestible, useful, and visually appealing.

These marvelous glowing rectangles each have two bars (think the left and right signals on an audio meter, which is incidentally what they were often used for), each with 201 neon segments.

To ensure charts and graphs are compliant with ADA standards, please use alt text to describe the nature or content of the data shown. If a chart is too complex to explain properly through alt text ...