If you’re a biomedical researcher and you’re using bar graphs to plot continuous data, Tracey L. Weissgerber has one word for you: “Stop.” Weissgerber, a physiologist at Mayo Clinic, is on a crusade ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Nov 17, 2011, 09:57am EST Nov 20, 2011, 07:38am EST This article is more than ...

Looks can be deceiving and that's one of the problems with today's three-dimensional bar graph. While these graphs may look correct, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of ...

Bar graphs seem like one of the simplest ways to represent data. Many people assume that the longer the bar, the bigger the number it represents. Sometimes bar graphs represent an average not a total ...

A puzzle that has long flummoxed computers and the scientists who program them has suddenly become far more manageable. A new algorithm efficiently solves the graph isomorphism problem, computer ...