A reader need go no further than page two of Leland Wilkinson’s The Grammar of Graphics before reading, “We will also come to realize why a histogram is not a bar chart and why many other graphics ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and ...

Pie charts and histograms may look simple, but using them effectively can make or break your data story. Pie charts shine when showing proportions of a whole, while histograms reveal the shape and ...

Last week’s post, “A Histogram is NOT a Bar Chart ”, explained that bar charts were used for comparing categorical variables and that histograms were used to show the distributions of binned ...

How to use the histogram displays in your camera to improve your photos. All digital cameras are able to display a histogram on their LCD monitors and/or in their electronic viewfinders. It’s one of ...

Scientists commonly form histograms of counted events from their data, and extract parameters by fitting to a known model. Anytime a scientist counts photons, molecules, cells or data for individuals ...

The shape of a histogram can tell us some key points about the distribution of the data used to create it. It can tell us the relationship between the mean and the median, and also allow us to ...