The takeaway: every bar graph needs a zero on its scale. If you see one without a zero, be careful. In a future post I'll discuss whether line graphs and other graphs also need a zero on their scales.

Bar Graphs’ is another significant topic of Arithmetic chapter in the Quantitative Aptitude Section. This topic is given to test your aptitude in the Data Interpretation section. You can expect ...

The developers at Digital Dreams don't hold degrees in mathematics or business, nor are they big statistics nerds, but their first Vita game, Metrico, takes place entirely on a landscape of bar ...

The bar chart below shows different types of vehicle that were seen during a traffic survey. Bar charts are useful for comparing a set of data with different categories.

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

If you’re a biomedical researcher and you’re using bar graphs for continuous data, Tracey L. Weissgerber has one word for you: “Stop.” Weissgerber, a physiologist at Mayo Clinic, is on a ...

Ken Schultz, a political scientist at Stanford, was inspired by the misleading Wall Street Journal graphic and disappeared Tax Foundation blog post to illustrate just how easy it is to manipulate ...