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 ...

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 ...

Let’s say you’ve polled your customers and now have a spreadsheet full of data from which you need to glean insights. There are complicated tools that can do this, such as IBM’s SPSS software, but to ...