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 ...

The article includes several bar graphs ... “What scale is he using?” I couldn’t imagine being able to notice 10,000 on a linear scale that included 7 billion. I then drew a similar chart ...

The scale of the graph they see affects people’s responses concerning their policy preferences and stated behaviours. Ceteris paribus, respondents who see the information on the linear scale ...

In a regular linear scale graph -- the type of scale everyone is used to seeing on a daily basis in everything from the Dow Jones Index to your quarterly sales numbers -- each point on the ...