Demystifying Box-and-whisker plots — Part 1 Tim Brock / Mon, Jan 25, 2016 If you browse through a large, printed, newspaper and pick out all the charts you find you'll probably come across some of the following: bar chart, timeseries (line chart), pie chart, donut chart, stacked...
Bar Charts versus Dot Plots Tim Brock / Sun, May 10, 2015 Bar charts have a distinct advantage over chart forms that require area or angle judgements. That's because the simple perceptual tasks we require for decoding a bar chart - judging lengths and/or position...
Should I Choose a Pie Chart or a Bar Chart? Tim Brock / Thu, Jan 22, 2015 Imagine you want a chart that shows how some whole is divided up among its constituent parts. Popular convention may tell you to think in terms of a pie chart. As an example, here’s a bare-bones pie...