Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research has found that bar graphs are frequently misunderstood ...

A new study suggests that the format in which graphs are presented may be biasing people into being too optimistic or pessimistic about the trends the graphs display. Academics found that when people ...

Bar graph showing migration intensity and collisions (IMAGE) Cornell University Caption Graph shows the number of bird strikes per aircraft movement (blue bars) and level of bird movement (red line), ...