Bar Chart

The old standby. The classic. The bar height or length represents data. The baseline starts at zero.

State Income Tax Brackets Charted

I’m sure you finished your taxes months ago, but here’s a chart of…

How to Make and Use Bar Charts in R

The chart type seems simple enough, but there sure are a lot of bad ones out there. Get yourself out of default mode.

Increasing rates of men who don’t work

Recent data from the Census Bureau suggests the rate of non-working men has…

Baseline matters

Sweet, I guess Fox News had it right all along. I’m going to…

Fox News bar chart gets it wrong

Because Fox News. See also this, this, and this. [Thanks, Meron]…

The safest time to drive

As we’ve seen, there are more fatal car crashes during the weekend and…

Doctor timeline for Doctor Who

I have yet to see a full episode of Doctor Who, “the longest-running…

What America spends on food and drink

How much more (or less) money do you spend on groceries than you do on dining out? Bundle, a new online destination that aims to describe how we spend money, takes a look at the grocery-dining out breakdown in major cities.