If you’ve ever doubted that visualization matters to data analysis, you need to see these images. Why is data visualization so important in statistics, anyway? Graphs and other kinds of visualizations ...

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Do you see it? The line graph, in the artwork above? Take another look. Whoa, right? Artist and scientist Jill Pelto combines art with scientific data to raise awareness about climate change. In this ...

Researchers have proved a special case of the Erdős-Hajnal conjecture, which shows what happens in graphs that exclude anything resembling a pentagon. When you walk into a room full of people, you can ...

You can make a bar graph in Excel by first selecting the range of data you want to depict, and then using the dropdown menu to select the desired chart. A bar graph represents the data of an Excel ...