Bar charts are useful for comparing the data across ... or for displaying categorical or discrete variables. A box plot is a graph that shows the summary or the statistics of a continuous variable ...

That chart form is a box plot, also called a box and whisker plot. The bar charts compared the times visitors spent at the various exhibitions by comparing their medians. Summary statistics such ...

This post recommends using Trellis plots instead of 3D bar charts for three-dimensional (three variable) data. In Winner of the Bad Graph Contest Announced, I promised to present alternatives to ...

Despite their wide use, bar graphs have fostered a misleading approach to describe continuous data, while traditional tools such as box plots and dot plots are more suitable for this purpose. Bar ...

Bar charts are too frequently used to communicate data that they cannot represent well. We strongly encourage the use of more appropriate plots to display statistical samples. Bar charts are a ...