There are dozens of chart types for visualizing data, yet analysts come back to bar charts, time and time again. Simply put, bar charts are really good at what they do: they’re quick to create, show ...

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 ...

Bar charts should be converted into accessible tables. Briefly describe the chart and give a summary if one is immediately apparent. Provide the title and axis labels. It is not necessary to describe ...

Error bars illustrate the margin of error for a survey estimate by showing how precise that estimate is. Here are some ...

Can the users of financial statements and annual reports rely upon the charts in them for accuracy? A sample of 50 public companies' yearly reports ...

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 ...

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.

A cluster chart is like a bar chart except that it clusters several bars into a category and displays each cluster separately from the rest. For example, you could categorize quarterly sales data by ...