The classic horizontal bar chart is something we’re all familiar with. For many of us, it was the first ‘chart’ we learnt in school, usually alongside Venn diagrams and line graphs. That’s because bar ...

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Graphs are pictorial representations of numbers. Therefore, at the least, we ...

This example generates several graphs of sales data that can be accessed from a single Web page. The graphs are two bar charts of summary sales data and three pie charts that break the data down by ...

This educational film teaches viewers how to construct mathematical line graphs to solve algebraic problems. It begins by reviewing statistical graphs and then explains the relationship between ...

One way of demonstrating how businesses manage their stock levels is to use a bar gate stock diagram like the one below. The maximum stock level is the largest amount of stock a business can store on ...

A single large value in Microsoft Excel can disrupt your whole graph. For example, if you create a bar graph showing the market share held by each company in your industry, a single dominant ...

You can use ODS to generate a drill-down graph (see About Drill-down Graphs). All you have to do is supply the linking information that identifies the location of the target output. SAS/GRAPH produces ...