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 ...

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 ...

A bar chart is a diagram that uses rows of horizontal or vertical bars to show information. The title tells you what the bar chart is about. The vertical and horizontal lines are called axes. The ...

Bar graphs are used to show sets of data in more specific categories. 32 students were asked which season was their favourite. The table shows the results. Construct a bar chart that represents these ...

This example shows how to label subgroups in a vertical bar chart that is generated by the GCHART procedure. Each bar represents total orders for a city and is subgrouped by the type of order. The ...

You can use Bar Charts on the Graphics menu to create horizontal or vertical simple bar charts, stacked bar charts, grouped bar charts, and grouped and stacked bar charts. In the "Graphics" chapter of ...

Choosing the right type of chart helps you display discrete data more effectively. Discrete data consists of whole numbers that are counted rather than measured. For example, when you track items sold ...

Social media users have shared a bar chart comparing disease death rates that suggests the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic has been greatly exaggerated. The graph, however, lacks the ...