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 ...

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 ...

See how easy it is to create interactive web graphs from ggplot2 visualizations with the ggiraph R package. You can even link graphs so that clicking one dataviz affects the display of another. Static ...

Adrian Barnett is a member of the Statistical Society of Australia. Victor Oguoma is a member of the Statistical Society of Australia. Our lives are becoming increasingly data driven. Our phones ...