Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. Why am I saying that the Fox News’ graph requires a zero baseline but the Huff ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

When you create a graph in Excel, the software automatically sizes the X and Y axis lines, so the data you want to display is shown. You can override the settings and set the vertical and horizontal ...

The scale on the left graph is inappropriate. The numbers go up higher than necessary on both axes. This means the points are squashed into a small part of the graph area and are difficult to read ...

In the era of Big Data, the relationship between data are complex and large in scale. The relationship between various data objects is described as Vertex and Edge, where the Vertex represents the ...