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 ...

Common Excel visuals like pies, 3D charts, and dual axes often mislead more than they clarify data.

Graphs are pictorial representations of numbers. Therefore, at the least, we should expect that the representation of the numbers be proportional to the numbers themselves. Unfortunately, this is not ...