As business people and marketers, we traffic in data. It’s what we use to make decisions (even gut decisions). Data is also how we communicate the status of things and how we make the case for change.

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 ...

Choosing the right way to visualize your data makes the difference between telling a clear, compelling story or creating cognitive overload. Here's how to pick. Data is best understood when presented ...

Data visualization is one of the most important tools we have to analyze data. But it’s just as easy to mislead as it is to educate using charts and graphs. In this article we’ll take a look at 3 of ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Data visualization has become a hot topic and more and more blogs and books ...

There are various types of graphs used to visually represent data, such as bar graphs, pie charts, and histograms. Chenxing Li, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Georgia's Center for ...

Planning and executing an excellent SEO strategy is critical for any digital marketing campaign. However, the effort requires data to tell the story in a way that resonates with our clients. But ...

Accountants often are tasked with tracking the performance of their organization (or client organizations). That process usually requires referring to multiple sources to gain insight on the trends of ...