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 ...

Bar graphs are designed to show categorized data. But they are often used for other types of data, partly because they are easier to make using Microsoft Excel than are other kinds of charts ...

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart.

Perhaps you’ve seen them popping up in your own timeline: insular, blocky chunks of bar graph data curiously sent out by the people you follow. These visual representations are actually lines of ...

You can make a bar graph on Google Sheets to make the data in your spreadsheet more digestible, useful, and visually appealing.

Learn about bar charts with this BBC Bitesize Maths article. For students between the ages of 11 and 14.

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A bar chart is judged by the length of the bar. I don’t like using lengths with logarithmic scales. That is a second reason that I prefer dot plots over bar charts for these data.