Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Nov 17, 2011, 09:57am EST Nov 20, 2011, 07:38am EST This article is more than ...

The classic horizontal bar chart is something we’re all familiar with. For many of us, it was the first ‘chart’ we learnt in school, usually alongside Venn diagrams and line graphs. That’s because bar ...

Bar graphs seem like one of the simplest ways to represent data. Many people assume that the longer the bar, the bigger the number it represents. Sometimes bar graphs represent an average not a total ...

There are various types of graphs used to visually represent data, such as bar graphs, pie charts, and histograms. Chenxing Li, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Georgia's Center for ...

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 ...