[BikerGlen] wanted to spice up his zombie containment unit (see video below) so he designed and 3D printed some very cool looking bar graphs. Apparently, you can get curved bar graph LEDs, but ...

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 ...

This example subgroups by department the 3D vertical bar chart of total sales for each site that is shown in Specifying the Sum Statistic in Bar Charts. In addition to subdividing the bars to show the ...

First, let’s see what a bar graph spaced properly looks like. The lines are plotted at the same dates as in the original figure of the last post. These simple figures were drawn with Excel 2010.

For example, Column charts illustrate how data changes over time, but they’re also the best design to show comparisons among items. Bar charts are, essentially, just horizontal Column charts and ...