Investopedia

Linear Price Scale: What It is, How It Works, Example

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
Simon Fraser University

Example 5: Plotting Data on a Logarithmic Scale

This example uses a DATA step to generate data. The PROC PLOT step shows two plots of the same data -- one plot without a horizontal axis specification and one plot with a logarithmic scale specified ...
Forbes

How Should I Label Log Scales in Charts and Graphs?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. In “When Should I Use Logarithmic Scales in My Charts and Graphs”, I showed ...
The Atlantic

Is There a Better Way to Measure Earthquakes?

Two hundred years ago, Missouri was rocked by an earthquake so severe it made the Mississippi River flow backward and set off church bells in Boston more than 1,000 miles away. These details help ...
Scientific American

A Natural Log: Our Innate Sense of Numbers is Logarithmic, Not Linear

We humans seem to be born with a number line in our head. But a May 30 study in Science suggests it may look less like an evenly segmented ruler and more like a logarithmic slide rule on which the ...