If a bar graph looks twice as big, is the value also twice as big? 3 questions to check the scale and denominator

Looking at a bar graph, you might think, "B is about twice as much as A." However, when you read the numbers, A is 40 people ...

Creating bar charts for reports with AI: Instructions for comparing three numbers and examples of revisions

Have you ever had AI create a graph for you, only to feel that it was somehow hard to read?The first chart this time also had ...
Forbes

Interesting Bar Chart Variations You Could Be Using

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 ...
Science Daily

Missing the bar: How people misinterpret data in bar graphs

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 ...
Phys.org

New study suggests that when forecasting trends, reading a bar chart versus a line graph biases our judgement

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 from City, University ...