Never use more dimensions in your figure than there are variables in the data you are plotting. We’ve all seen circles, odd shapes and even three-dimensional figures used to represent the changes in a ...

There are standard conventions for designing and reading graphs. One convention is for the values on the horizontal axis to increase from left to right. Similarly, values increase on the vertical axis ...

Data visualization is one of the most important tools we have to analyze data. But it’s just as easy to mislead as it is to educate using charts and graphs. In this article we’ll take a look at 3 of ...