Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. If you are looking for examples of misleading or deceptive graphs, it is far ...

Adobe Illustrator's Graph tool opens a miniature spreadsheet-like window into which you can enter rows and columns of data to produce column, bar, line, area, scatter, pie and radar graphs. Its line ...

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Plotted points on a graph are referred to as coordinates. Coordinates are pair of numbers written in the form \(({x},~{y})\) where \({x}\) is the amount moved horizontally, and \({y}\) the amount ...

An equation of the form \(y = mx + c\) where \(m\) and \(c\) are numbers, gives a straight line when values of \(x\) and corresponding values of \(y\) are plotted on a grid. A straight line is a ...