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 ...

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 ...

Amit Singhal, Google’s senior VP of search, today announced that Google’s Knowledge Graph will start exposing a number of statistics as graphs on the search results pages today. Google is also adding ...

Data can be presented in many ways that make it quicker and easier to read. In this section we will look at some of these ways. It is important to choose the best way to present data. A line graph can ...

Type "unemployment rate California" into Google and you'll notice a little graph pops up in the search results. That graph is part of a Google Tool called Public Data which was introduced last year to ...

Software packages for charting data often offer menus; i.e., lists of charts that are available. Excel offers a menu; Tableau has Show Me! Elementary statistics and graphing books offer recipes; i.e., ...

In math and statistics, you may occasionally need to calculate the slope of a line generated by coordinates in the (x,y) format. The slope is a value that indicates the rate at which the y value of a ...