In the midst of some difficult months for the international stock markets, cryptocurrencies have almost recovered to their all-time highs. It is interesting that this recovery happened in absence of ...

Presentation matters when it comes to representing the scope of coronavirus cases. A study published by the London School of Economics shows one type of graphic representation could be creating ...

Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program includes a Chart Wizard for making a variety of graphs from tabulated data. In some situations, as with scientific experiments, the data in one or both axes of ...

The Treasury has been rebuked over a chart which gave voters a “false impression” over the scale of Government spending on infrastructure, including flood defences. Britain’s statistics watchdog has ...

In “When Should I Use Logarithmic Scales in My Charts and Graphs”, I showed the revenues of the top 60 Forbes 500 companies using both linear and logarithmic scales. The log scale spread out the bulk ...

There are two main reasons to use logarithmic scales in charts and graphs. The first is to respond to skewness towards large values; i.e., cases in which one or a few points are much larger than the ...