This post recommends using Trellis plots instead of 3D bar charts for three-dimensional (three variable) data. In Winner of the Bad Graph Contest Announced, I promised to present alternatives to Excel ...

[BikerGlen] wanted to spice up his zombie containment unit (see video below) so he designed and 3D printed some very cool looking bar graphs. Apparently, you can get curved bar graph LEDs, but only if ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Edward Tufte news every morning. If you want to sow division among chartmakers, ask them if pie charts are a good idea. If you want to ...

There is only one place for most 3D graphs, and that is the trash bin! The large majority of 3D graphs used in general or business context are confusing to interpret and prone to be misread. Popular ...

You won’t believe how easy it is to create animated bar charts in the R programming language to show rankings over time. Racing bar charts can be a useful way to visualize comparative data over time.

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 ...