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 ...

A new study suggests that the format in which graphs are presented may be biasing people into being too optimistic or pessimistic about the trends the graphs display. Academics found that when people ...

Adobe Illustrator's Graph tool opens a miniature spreadsheet-like window into which you can enter rows and columns of data to produce column, bar, line, area, scatter, pie and radar graphs. Its line ...

Software packages for charting data often offer menus; i.e., lists of charts that are available. Excel offers a menu; Tableau has Show Me! Elementary statistics and graphing books offer recipes; i.e., ...

Before talking about best practices for visually presenting scientific data, it is important to summarize and define what tools are available. For most fields, graphs are the most common form of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. This article is more than 10 years old. This is the first post in a new blog ...

Bar graphs are graphical representations of statistical data in the form of strips or bars. This allows viewers to understand the difference between the various parameters of the data at a glance ...

Different types of graphs and charts are needed to present results from experiments. Graphs and charts need to be drawn and labelled correctly. Use patterns in the data to reach a conclusion in an ...

Different types of graphs and charts are needed to present results from experiments. Graphs and charts need to be drawn and labelled correctly. Use patterns in the data to reach a conclusion in an ...