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Missing the bar: How people misinterpret data in bar graphs

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 ...
The Conversation

Here’s why you should (almost) never use a pie chart for your data

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 ...
The Conversation

3 questions to ask yourself next time you see a graph, chart or map

Carson MacPherson-Krutsky receives funding from The National Science Foundation. She is the co-owner of HazardReady, LLC. Since the days of painting on cave walls, people have been representing ...
Medicine Buffalo

Chart Analysis

The principle goal is to develop robust methods that address the problem of reverse engineering data in charts in scientific documents to enable access to the underlying quantitative information not ...