Excel’s chart features can turn your spreadsheet data into compelling visual communications—if you know what to do. This guide will walk you through the basics of setting up trends, percentages, ...

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 ...

Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research from Wellesley College published in the Journal of ...

When collecting, analyzing, and sharing data in an Excel chart, it is helpful to be able to represent it in a manner that is quickly and easily understood. Creating a bar or column graph is a great ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

This post recommends using Trellis plots instead of 3D bar charts for three-dimensional (three variable) data. In Winner of the Bad Graph Contest Announced, I promised to present alternatives to Excel ...

Follow the steps below to create a Bar Chart in Microsoft Access. You can make Bar Charts in Microsoft Office programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access. In Microsoft Word ...

You won’t believe how easy it is to create animated bar charts in the R programming language to show rankings over time. Racing bar charts can be a useful way to visualize comparative data over time.

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 ...

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 misunderstood ...