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 ...

Shared on Facebook and Instagram, posts include a bar graph showing “murder of blacks and whites in the US, 2013” broken down by the races of the perpetrators. While the graph itself is accurate, the ...

At a press conference in New York City on Saturday, Mayor Bill de Blasio brought along a bar graph that he said represented the evidence necessary to show that a lethal outbreak of Legionnaires’ ...

Once again we see how misleading a bar chart without a zero baseline appears. I’ve said before and I’ll say again that any bar graph needs a zero baseline. Thanks to the readers who sent me emails ...

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The driver board with display attached; the row of lamps is visible on the right hand side. LEDs weren’t always an easy solution to displays and indicators. The fine folks at [Industrial Alchemy] ...

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Instrument designs featuring a digital display may benefit from a secondary display that provides an analog version of the displayed parameter. A bar-graph display provides an easily interpreted ...