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 ...

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 ...

Knowledge graphs are a powerful tool for bringing together information from biological databases and linking what is already ...

If you're trying to convince your boss of a point, make sure to show her a graph. Because, as a new study from Cornell researchers Aner Tal and Brian Wansink suggests, people are more likely to ...

Evolutionary dynamics act on populations. Neither genes, nor cells, nor individuals evolve; only populations evolve. In small populations, random drift dominates, whereas large populations are ...

Imagine 100 dots scattered in front of you. In a haphazard variation on connect-the-dots, start drawing lines between the points. How many lines can you draw without producing a triangle? A square? An ...

Sexualitics is a big data project by a group of sociologists, demographic experts, computer scientists and math experts based in France that seeks to parse human sexuality by studying huge datasets ...

Different types of graphs and charts are needed to present results from experiments. Graphs and charts need to be drawn and labelled correctly. Use patterns in the data to reach a conclusion in an ...

Search engines create maps of the Internet called Link Graphs and these maps help search engines determine whether or not a site is relevant or low quality and how the site fits into the Internet.